Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fuller blames the Core Curriculum for draining students from more exotic courses. "The Core Curriculum has been killing off middle-level classes in all disciplines, particularly the humanities. You figure out how many courses you have to take for you particular major, then you figure out how many you take for the Core, then you figure out how many are left," Fuller says...
...results in an apparent union, all but unprecedented for him, between two wholly sympathetic characters. And because Shepard has directed the play to be uproarious, it casts new light on all his work. In retrospect, his eerie lowlifes seem more farcical, less perversely heroic. His characters frequently lack a core of conviction. In this tale, some have so little sense of self that they cannot recall whether events happened to them or to someone they knew. Moreover, Shepard characters rarely speak lyrically; he keeps their language as mud-bound as their lives. Plummer is allowed poetically disjointed speeches only because...
...core issue here is that The Crimson, that bastion of '60s throwbacks and "sophisticated" Establishment liberals, seems to have a morbid fear of any conservative movement at Harvard. When some students advocated divestment from companies that do business with the Soviet Union, the same Crimson which keeps the South Africa divestiture movement alive moved quickly to attack divestment from the USSR with haughty and vicious editorials--using the same arguments Derek Bok has used against divestiture from South Africa...
...Bureau works to restore students' confidence in their abilities and helps them approach their studies more effectively. One-on-one counseling work is the Bureau's core activity, Acting Director Mack I. Davis II says. "It is a very special opportunity that Harvard offers...
...recollections of what it was like to live in Greece during both World War II and the Greek Civil War. The result was characterized by a judicious mix of soft-soap elegizing about Gage's happy life with his mother and sisters before Greece's Civil War and hard-core indictments of the men who shattered their peaceful idyll...