Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Periodically fashion and education grow nostalgic, and try to return to the way things were in the good old days. Harvard's new Core Curriculum, for example, harkens back to the narrower educational requirements of the early 1900s. The Core is part of a current national trend toward revising general education curricula, usually by tightening requirements and clarifying academic goals. But despite the impression fostered by the national media, Harvard's own administrators point out that the Core is neither the first nor the most radical educational reform of its kind. Many other institutions have almost simultaneously opted for programs...
...curricular reforms sound like the same ones the fathers of general education offered in the early 1900s at places like Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. The speeches are so much alike they prompted critic Alston Chase to write in September's Atlantic Monthly that with the Core, Harvard is only "reinventing the wheel." Chase warns that the rest of the educational world may blindly follow suit without trying anything more innovative...
...liberal arts school of the State University of New York at Binghamton, has not yet decided what will replace its old Nat Sci, Soc Sci, Hum program, but H. Daniel Cohen, acting dean of the college, says the faculty is considering three options. One is an eight-course core curriculum for all students; another would let students choose among five or six sets of eight-course curricula; the third option (which Harper calls the Harvard Plan) would be a three-area distribution requirement with a limited choice of courses...
Such a confession seems relatively powerful compared with the tedious sex symbolism attached to Liz's husband, with whom Isabel "commits adultery." With the trashy, soft-core pornographic cliches, this episode strikes one as hilariously funny, regardless of the author's intentions...
...Allen, 18, is a sociable, talented artist and the only personality who smokes. David, 9, a frightened and abused child, may have made the call leading to Milligan's arrest. The police number was found on a pad next to Milligan's phone. Billy, 23, is the core personality-guilty, suicidal and "asleep" for most of the past seven years. When Wilbur first summoned up Billy, Milligan jumped off his chair and said, "Every time I come to, I'm in some kind of trouble. I wish I were dead...