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...Western Culture program requires that students take one of eight wide-ranging courses. The core books--including works by Homer, Dante, Darwin and Marx--are required reading in each of the eight, but beyond them, instructors can choose which books to include...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stanford Faculty Debates Teaching of Western Culture | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

...rewrite history. We can't pretend that Plato was female or an African," he said, "and you can't pretend Homer was Chinese...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stanford Faculty Debates Teaching of Western Culture | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

BEST DOUBLE PLAY Shades of all-around Athlete Jim Thorpe: Bo Jackson, who plays baseball for the Kansas City Royals and football for the Los Angeles Raiders, hit a 466-ft. homer and ran for a 91-yd. touchdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best of '87 | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...Swaggart's recent Brazilian tour. What distinguishes the occasion is its civility. Even the singing of hymns at the service seems contained. Perhaps the restraint stems partly from the absence of hard liquor and beer. "As practicing Protestants, many of us think alcohol is unholy and unhealthy," says John Homer Steagall, 68, a retired Singer sewing-machine general manager. "So drinking at the reunion is highly frowned upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brazil: Echoes from the Confederacy | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...Harold Stassen and Viking Super Bowls in between, the hanky-waving citizenry has been desperate to be known as a winner and to lead the way. Behind 5-2 in the sixth game, they thought about despairing again, until old Don Baylor hit a two-run homer, and Hrbek a grand slam. No team had ever won all four home games in a World Series, but by a score of 11-5 and a grace as big as all indoors, the Twins won the right to try. Meanwhile, back in St. Louis, the headline writers stood by wondering which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Series Heroes Require Introductions | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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