Word: cores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seminars, which are taught by members of the houses' Senior Common Rooms, officially are part of the General Education Department, the Core Curriculum's predecessor, which offers courses that do not fit into the guidelines of any one department...
...stellar company, Co-Stars Joe Mantegna, a 1984 Tony Award winner for Glengarry, and Ron Silver, a movie and TV veteran (Silkwood, NBC's Billionaire Boys Club), might almost be an afterthought. In fact, the interaction between Mantegna as the mogul and Silver as a shameless huckster is the core of Mamet's pell-mell 88-minute play. Of all American playwrights, Mamet, 40, remains the shrewdest observer of the evil that men do unto each other in the name of buddyhood. Obsessed with the need for ethical debate, he nonetheless brings as much delight as despair to his portraits...
...Viet Nam War. But error, for the most part, is acknowledged through gritted teeth. Reunion contains a breathlessly credulous account of his 1965 visit to Hanoi, replete with references to the pride and dignity of the North Vietnamese. In an afterthought, Hayden admits that he was "blind to the core of authoritarianism" in Hanoi. It is a "yes, but" apology, balanced with renewed assaults on the flaws in U.S. policy, and it appears to carry a subliminal message: We radicals were on the side of the angels; we did not deserve to be wrong...
Bennett, while at Harvard labelled student course choice in the Core a mixture of "Luck, serendipity, chance, peer pressure and a kind of institutional negligence." But a student's four years at college are expected to be a time of growth; a rehash of the Western ideals already indoctrinated during high school, which Bennett proposed two years ago, does not seem like a worthy goal, as it would further close minds which should be opened with new information...
...Core affords students the chance to delve into a wide variety of fields without the intense pressure of taking department offerings. Granted, eight required courses might seem burdensome to students, and there have been numerous, deserved complaints about inconsistencies in quality and value. Yet how else could one learn biology from a famous professor like Stephen Jay Gould without battling pre-meds in their own department, or find the motivation to explore in-depth an important movement such as the Chinese Cultural Revolution...