Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course is more widely known, is an introductory economics course, required by the department. More important, though, it's also a Core course--one reportedly taken by more than three-quarters of all undergraduates...
...Core curriculum, as set up by former Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky, is intended to give undergraduates a broad, interdisciplinary education. At its best, it is designed to teach ways of thinking and not just knowledge. Limiting the ways in which students are taught to think about economics, as about any other discipline, runs counter to any traditional concept of a liberal arts education...
...question on each of issues is: How well will they serve to attract crucial swing voters? Each side can fairly well count on its core constituency: for Mondale, minorities, the poor, organized labor; for Reagan, religious fundamentalists, the well-to-do and conservatives of every stripe. The real battle is for the middle, in particular two key groups: the blue-collar middle class and the smaller but influential core of young professionals sometimes called Yuppies...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) is once again a hot topic at Harvard. While the College and the Core monopolized the Faculty's attention for over a decade, the grad school is now getting its share of the limelight. Five departments have changed their graduate programs in the past year, and the GSAS itself is receiving its first searching review in 15 years...
...roles, must follow different circuits to their roles. Hulce, who may be remembered by movie fans as the prime nerd in National Lampoon's Animal House, must stride on-screen as a fop manqué, pinwheeling his arrogance, before the audience can find the obsession at the core of his genius. Hulce prepared for the role by practicing piano four hours a day. "After that," he says, "all I felt like doing was dancing and drinking all night-just like Mozart." In a daring, powerful performance, this boy with the map of White Water, Wis., stamped on his face...