Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...More likely, changing survival needs led him out of the jungle to the African savanna, where he stood to peer over tall grasses.) As for Johanson's announcing a "new" name for Lucy, some specialists observe he did that a year ago in a little-noticed Cleveland Museum journal. "I don't think Johanson has made a particularly good case for her being a different species," says a leading anthropologist, and adds: "He's a guy who's always trying to upstage people...
...Scottish-German traditions," Bok recalls. "But they'd sing anything. Scottish, South African, Jewish, anything." On his dad's side, there is the Curtis Institute of Music, founded by his grandmother. Grandfather Edward Bok was part of Curtis Publishing and longtime editor of the Ladies' Home Journal. He wrote an autobiography called The Americanization of Edward Bok, which Gordon had to read in school. His father Cary William, "a man of few words who once pitched semi-pro ball against Babe Ruth and Lou Geh-rig," left Curtis to run a shipyard in Camden. His uncle Curtis...
...Arthur Goodfriend, currently an Education School student, life is a series of images and impressions that fly by all too quickly, So at age 15 he decided to keep a diary--but not an ordinary one. A "graphic narrative" is what he calls it--a scrapbook, journal, memory book and sketchpad pasted one on top of another and rolled into a unique whole. He's been keeping them ever since that time nearly 50 years...
Goodfriend opened his Harvard journal this fall, when he began a year at the Graduate School of Education where he has been studying people working for their Doctorates of Education. This year's diary thus contains notes and sketches from his interviews with doctoral candidates. Goodfriend seeks to learn why and how people obtain Ed. D.s, and perhaps thereby to explain his sense of "disillusionment and despair" about the educational process. "The assumption is that people who come out of a prestigious school like Harvard have some impact on the educational system," he says, but cautions that although his paper...
Goodfriend has willed his Harvard journal to the University archives, who will display it sometime this year. He hopes it will serve Harvard as more than a visual history, however. He tells students, "I really think most college-age people blow their lives away--20 years from now, you'll remember little of what you do today. Keep a diary...