Word: formative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Interview format: It can range from a very structured, direct interview in which the interviewer has prepared questions, to an indirect interview in which the interviewer sits back and lets the conversation follow its own course...
...result? Moral Reasoning 22, "Justice," a Core Course in which Sandel and 890 undergraduates meet in Sanders Theater to grapple with classic moral questions, often in a format that resembles more the Phil Donahue show than a typical Harvard lecture course...
...short, despite some fine performances by Streep, Ullman and Sting, Plenty is the fall season's most bitter disappointment. Had Schepisi and Hare been willing to sacrifice the artsy elements in favour of a more straightforward, biographical format, Plenty would have been more than enough...
Older audience members seemed content with the purely sensual poetry, but students in the audience had various criticisms to offer on the format. While Vivian Wong of the Harvard Advocate thought its was a generally good idea to get poetry out into the public spaces, she felt" the program could use a little more structure"--some unifying theme. Sheila Melvin was more direct in her criticism. Referring to the almost condescending nature of the selections, she said that "poets shouldn't come to the people, people should come to the poets...
...revealing chapter, "A Death in the Day of," he writes as himself and also assumes the persona of a reporter assigned to a story about him. Pete uses this format to extemporize about his daily life, and says, "In spurts I answer fan mail and business letters, play snooker, strum my guitar into a cassette machine, pray for forgiveness and think about what a total mess I've made of a life that had everything, and everyone, going...