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But you can't spend your Fourth of July this way. I did it last year, and while I enjoyed talking to a three-year-old French girl who was visiting for the week, it just wasn't the same as being there. The dregs and creme de la creme...
Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Gregory Nagy suggest that Harvard professors use the word" canon" as a catchphrase because they no longer debate or discuss what the content of a liberal arts education should be.
Although professors say they regret students'lack of familiarity with many classical texts,they say that in college, students should beintroduced to different perspectives.Incorporating contemporary views into coursesyllabi, for example, can only enrich thetraditional canon, they say.
The yearbook poll also showed seniors who favored classical music on the radio (65 percent), preferred strong liquor over beer or non-alcoholic beverages (86 percent), and studied less because of the war (66 percent).
Who was Leonard Bernstein? A talented conductor and gifted composer of popular music who overreached when he tried to write "serious" scores? A lecherous bisexual who alienated his wife, confounded his children and appalled his friends with his calculated program of artful dissipation? Classical music's shining American champion, familiar...