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Two new Core courses debuted on the list. Literature and Arts B-33, "Buildings and Cities: An Introduction to Western Architecture and Urbanism," and Foreign Cultures 42, "Building the Shogun's Realm: The Unification of Japan 1560-1650," made their first apperances in the Course Catalog and in the top...
It is a familiar cliche, of course, that the Third World is trapped between its own traditional cultures and encroaching modernity. Old men driving donkey carts past skyscrapers, turbaned young boys listening to rock 'n' roll songs, etc., etc. During my three weeks in Tunisia, though, I saw how facile...
The situation is neither recent nor the product of Cambridge conceit. It is part of a legacy from President Charles Eliot, who, starting in 1869, remade Harvard with a new emphasis on research and graduate study, and, among his faculty, strongly encouraged these scholarly pursuits. At Harvard, as at other...
In many ways, they embody competing cultures within the black community. Bond's father and grandfather were both college presidents, and on the wall of his headquarters are pictures of him as a boy with such people as W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson. He went to a predominantly white...
However, this movie is one of the best of the year in a warm, surprising way. It portrays life as it is lived, people as they are, with no pretentions or glamour. A Great Wall captures both cultures, contrasts them and comes to no conclusion other than that life, with...