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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people you remember out of Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy." There are many openings for gratuitous nostalgia in Kitaj's literary art, and his paintings can be as irritating as any text that drapes its obscurities with belligerent footnotes; they sometimes reduce themselves to promiscuity among famous names. But what gen erally saves Kitaj's work from this failing is his visual flair and range of notation. He has a virtuoso's fist, and can with equal conviction parody the cartoony style of a '40s detective-novel cover or produce the near life-size portrait, The Hispanist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last History Painter | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Army Brig. Gen. Peter Rich said yesterday attacks on polling places began Sunday night, but only one site suffered damage. Rich said two guerillas were killed in the attacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rhodesian Nationalists Blow Up Oil Tanks | 4/17/1979 | See Source »

...some of whom will leave Harvard, some of whom will not choose to teach Core courses. Moreover, Rosovsky is implicitly denying that students have a valid perspective on their own educations. The Faculty created the Core Curriculum to replace the flawed and misdirected General Education program. As students under Gen Ed's sway, present undergraduates have a unique outlook on the program. They are well qualified to suggest ways in which the Faculty might best avoid repeating these mistakes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Students Far Away From the Core | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

...existing introductory departmental and General Education courses. Students who took these courses--and almost all have large enrollments--can offer valuable suggestions as to how the Faculty might strengthen the classes. Such advice could ensure that the Core program avoids the floundering and lack of direction that plagued Gen Ed, its ill-fated predecessor...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Exposing the Core | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

...great anveiling. This consideration, Pfeffer said, prompted the committee to design several new courses that specifically fit the Core's temets. In future years, as the Core fades from public view, the Faculty's critical approach to Core courses may fade. The Core might evolve--or devolve--into another Gen Ed. Pfeffer stressed. "Nothing is stopping the Core from deteriorating after this first splash. New courses must continually be developed--And students are one of the best sources for that task...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Exposing the Core | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

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