Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brutus is the moral core of the play, a bit of a standoffish prig, perhaps, but still unstainably idealistic. In Rene Auberjonois's handling he is merely sweatily fretful, like someone who has just received word that he is up for an IRS audit. When it comes to the lean and hungry Cassius, Richard Dreyfuss looks like someone who makes substantial midnight raids on the fridge. More pertinently, he appears as the soul of sanity, a jarringly implausible refutation of the qualities of envy, thwarted ambition and deviousness that are an intrinsic part of Cassius' makeup...
...largely seem to decide whether to make Violet, the girl prostitute, into a victim or a vixen. Malle could have cast her as the silent but justice, like Anna in Carlos Saura's recent haunting film, Cria. Or Violet could have childhood--the kid forced to grow up too core of vulnerability. (Jodie Foster's teenage comes to mind.) Instead, Violet's is a face not to lurk in corners but to skip through halls. Her coping mechanism, if it can be called that, is a sort of bitchiness. But it is a bitchiness that is not so much protective...
...students, we find the proposed core curriculum unpleasant and unappetizing. Perhaps the most offensive aspect of the proposal is the assumption that the Harvard Faculty, in its collective wisdom, is entitled to define a well-rounded student. We would like to propose a small test for Dean Rosovsky, Professor of Government Stanley H. Hoffmann, and any other self-proclaimed "Renaissance men" who support the core curriculum. We suggest that sample final examinations be composed for each of the proposed core courses, and that these examinations be administered to all those harbingers of the "new era in undergraduate education." The completed...
What is the meaning of representation? An elected representative is expected to convey to the authorities the views of his constituents; yet Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) representative Victor I. Filippini '80, when presenting the Core petition to the Faculty, read "only the sections he agreed with." He admitted that the petition showed students' concern, yet did not consider that concern--demonstrated by the signatures of 2500 of his constituents--worthy of an impartial presentation. In fact, he began by saying that he did not agree with the petition...
This lack of representation of all student views is one reason that the Ad Hoc Committee on the Core was formed. We don't ask our representatives to help us or to agree with us; we do expect them to present our views clearly and thoroughly. That is their duty; it is especially important here, since they are the only students permitted to speak at Faculty meetings...