Word: core
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Riesman, a contributor to the Bennett report, differs sharply. While Glazer thinks that Harvard's Core Curriculum is the best way to clean up higher education, Riesman advocates Columbia University's Core Curriculum as the ideal to which all colleges should aspire. In Columbia's program, all students are required to take several common courses on Western civilization. Riesman argues that if every student must take at least a few of the same courses, the true meaning of colleges will be restored...
...true point of the Core should be that everybody is reading the same books," Riesman says. "There is little that is common today among students except sports, sex, and food...
...have not stressed Bach in my teaching of ferrings, because I think it's not good to develop a own track situation," Wolff said. In fact, the first class Wolff taught at Harvard was about Mozart, another one of his favorite composers. However, Wolff is currently teaching a core course on Bach, called, appropriately enough, "Bach in his Time and Through the Centuries," Literature and Arts...
...title, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, and a co-author, Michael B. Rothenberg, 58, a Seattle pediatrician and child psychiatrist at the University of Washington who has signed on to update the book periodically until the end of this century. Despite four revisions, the core of the book, the psychosocial recommendations to parents, is basically unchanged. Every now and then a child-development expert grumbles that Spock has not kept up. But the author says, with much justice, that he simply got it right the first time around: "I don't mean to sound smug, but I haven...
...talking mother: short on homespun values but overflowing with love and support for her son. Though motherly love and June Cleaver are not necessarily synonymous, it is still difficult to accept this absurd hybrid of James Dean and Phyllis Schlafly. Every member of Rocky's extended family of hard-core bikers emerges as a candidate for a humanitarian of the year award by the picture's end. Must we really believe that these Hell's Angels are so sympathetic and intelligent that they could displace Doug Flutie as the reigning icon of America's youth? In the midst of this...