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...skepticism towards teaching any course with more than just words has slackend a bit. And the change has happily come under the auspices of the new General Education program. Daniel Seltzer, associate professor of English, has gained approval from the Committee on General Education for his new course, Hum 105--"The Literature and Practice of Drama...
...survey course, Hum 9 will leapfrog the period roughly from 2000 B.C. to the present. It will deal with the literature of the Ancient Near East, the Bible, and the ancients, and the vernacular literature of the Middle Ages, which marks the first recording of some of man's earliest creative expression. Old Norse sagas, Celtic legend, Irish mythology, and modern folklore and songs of both Europe and of some non-literate societies will also be examined...
Lord explained that Hum 9 would consider in broad perspective topics that specialised courses and seminars have traditionally studied separately and in greater detail...
While most lower-level humanities courses begin with and concentrate on Homer, Hum 9 will give students an opportunity to read the Homeric epics in conjunction with the Bible. Lord thinks that people rarely realize that in fact these were written in part simultaneously, somewhere around the eighth century...
...brassy and schmalzy, she toured the whole of show biz, breaking into vaudeville at 20, shimmying her way into Cole Porter's 1938 Broadway hit Leave It to Me and Hollywood's Honky Tonk, but mostly working the cabaret circuit, where for 50 years she made them hum along with Blue Skies, grow misty-eyed with Some of These Days, and roar over her gravelly Nobody Loves a Fat Girl, But Oh How a Fat Girl Can Love! "Red-Hot Mamas never grow old, they just go up in smoke," she insisted, and she was still playing...