Word: cores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular mastery over our surroundings forms the core of each part of the book. "The Eatth and the Seas" tells of the great explorers who turned geographic fantasy into maps of reality. "Nature" speaks of anatomy; as explorers once wouldn't sail the Atlantic became they believed there was no land to be found. So doctors wouldn't study the body because they thought they already knew all its organs. Boorstin shows the truth of the old chestnut: The first step towards knowledge is to admit one's ignorance. This was as true for the study of society...
...Undergraduate Council proposed this year that each House or group of Houses offer sections for large Core courses. Some masters, though, say they would rather offer unique House seminars...
November 15--Returning briefly to his official sphere as Dean, Watt issues a statement strongly urging that no new courses be added to the Core Curriculum, "lest this Core put out Leaves, and grow like a green thing...
...core, rock video is the kind of cultural shotgun wedding that delights the heart of any aging McLuhanist: rock, radio, movies, music, video, new technologies and new marketing tilting the popular culture onto an angle so it can, if so ordained, slip off onto a whole new course. "The musician in me really resents having to interpret my music into something visual," says Billy Joel. "But the thing that outweighs all of that is that video is a form of communication. Why not use every means of communication available?" Joel has communicated extremely well-his videos are among the genre...
...that its artistic director spends a great deal of his time elsewhere. He and the board have failed to appoint a deputy to him, entrusted with full artistic responsibility in Peter Hall's absence. This results in a policy which is incoherent and an enterprise which has no core. This vacuum creates discontent, confusion and inefficiency. That is why I resigned...