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...gives the subject a chance to manipulate the conversation. The subject can filibuster, deftly evading a probing question. CBS had already produced a hard-hitting five-minute introduction examining Bush's contradictory claims about his Iran-contra role. Executive Producer Tom Bettag saw three options: run the five-minute intro on its own, kill the story or accede to Bush's conditions. Finally CBS agreed to do the interview live, and warned Bush's staff that Rather's questions were going to be tough and pointed...
...supposed to teach approaches to different fields of knowledge. Instead, however, students say Core classes are basically intro-level department courses, and bad ones at that...
...nobody does. Instead professors teach Core courses the way their professors taught intro-courses. Nobody knows whether teaching approaches to non-concentrators makes sense because nobody has done...
However, this book is more than just an intro to the coldwater SoHo loft that is Frank Stella's mind. Stella has assigned himself the second task of uncovering the origin of the "crisis of abstraction," the growing consensus even among practitioners that contemporary abstract art bores the hell out of people. Stella attributes this yawning chasm between potential and performance to the flat, two-dimensional quality of the abstraction of the 1970s and '80s, heir to the tradition of highly colored "decorative" paintings exemplified by Delacroix and Malevich...
AFTER HANDING BACK midterms, one Core section leader in a Core course commented that the exams were "pretty good for an intro course." All too often TFs like this one fail to realize that they are teaching almost exclusively non-concentrators who will never take another course in the field again...