Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advertises itself as a pause in your Harvard career," says Benjamin D. Florman '99, a Gen Ed 105 alumnus and out-spoken critic. "I think that's completely untrue. I think it has a very clear agenda...
Such are the questions explored by the show, and an intelligently curated and truly absorbing show it is. But then, this Australian-born critic has a bias. Americans, to the extent that they think about Australia at all, tend to imagine it as the Wild West they began to lose a century ago, but with koalas. Australian culture, except for some of its pop music and literature, is wretchedly underreported in the U.S. In fact, this is the first effort ever made by an American museum even to show any images made in Australia in the 19th century, let alone...
...Italian Riviera village, is the initial step in a plan to change that perception. Among the first to sample the Bellagio's attractions were several TIME staffers, who this week appraise the hotel and the city's attempts to draw a new audience to the desert. TIME's art critic, Robert Hughes, who surveyed the Bellagio's $300 million collection, which includes paintings by Picasso and Van Gogh, says the venue was no deterrent to enjoying some "very good" works. "I've seen art in restaurants," he says, "so why not in hotels?" Film critic Richard Corliss, who says...
Alfie Kohn, an educator in Cambridge, Mass., who writes and speaks on behavioral issues, is perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades, test scores and class rankings. All this, argues the author of the influential 1993 book Punished by Rewards and a new book, What to Look for in a Classroom, kills off the love of learning and replaces it with superficial, grade-grubbing behavior. Kohn is appalled by parents who try to motivate their kids by paying for good grades: "You can almost watch the interest in learning evaporate before your eyes...
...committee remain in the House. Michigan's JOHN CONYERS is the ranking Democrat on the committee. New York's CHARLES RANGEL moved to the Ways and Means Committee, where he's the ranking Democrat. Two others are in the Senate: majority leader TRENT LOTT (Nixon partisan, Clinton critic) and PAUL SARBANES (Nixon critic, Clinton ally). The fresh-faced WILLIAM COHEN won a Senate seat, published works of poetry and fiction, and is now Secretary of Defense. ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN lost two Senate races and served as New York City comptroller...