Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like many publishing executives, Roger Rogalin of D.C. Heath has doubted that school authorities would press for upgrading the notoriously bland content of textbooks. Even after California's superintendent of public instruction Bill Honig warned publishers last year that his state meant business in reaching for higher standards, Rogalin said, "We've heard a number of times that things were going to change, only to see them fall apart down the road...
...spellbinding, not in the political message. By acting out the parts in the gloom of his darkened cell for his initially reluctant cell-mate, Molina saves his sanity and helps break the ice with Valentin--proof positive of fantasy's rich payoff for reality. As with Spielbergism, style subordinates content for our protagonist...
Older audience members seemed content with the purely sensual poetry, but students in the audience had various criticisms to offer on the format. While Vivian Wong of the Harvard Advocate thought its was a generally good idea to get poetry out into the public spaces, she felt" the program could use a little more structure"--some unifying theme. Sheila Melvin was more direct in her criticism. Referring to the almost condescending nature of the selections, she said that "poets shouldn't come to the people, people should come to the poets...
...University professor, is that committee. A Stillness Heard Round the World is a classic instance of information retrieval presented without bias or thesis. Unlike Paul Fussell, whose The Great War and Modern Memory (1975) brilliantly traced the outlines of World War I on contemporary art and life, Weintraub is content to play the role of time machine, flashing backward to gather the testimonies of eyewitnesses. They are unfailingly provocative...
...medical school admissions policy, including a provision to allow Advanced Placement (AP) test scores in chemistry and physics to count toward admissions requirements. Herschbach, chairman of the Curriculum Committee in Chemistry, sees these reforms as steps in a "larger campaign to encourage medical schools to define admissions criteria by content, not by 'units...