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...APPENDIX" to Phyllis Keller's book on the Core Curriculum evokes a laugh--a laugh born of the shock of recognition. Sure enough, there in the unmistakable typeface and format of the Course Catalogue is "a partial listing of Core courses" (last year's). The Big Book's vapid generalizations and inimitable manner of description are here preserved for all posterity, from "Literature and Arts A-11--Theater and Drama" to "Foreign Cultures 32--Political Doctrines and Society." Bound into the volume with them is the account--as seen by Phyllis Keller, associate dean of the Faculty for academic planning...
...Keller's faintly anomalous position as an observer of and participant in the Core's genesis--which she presents as a case study in academic reform, with implications of interest for American education in general--is characterized by a passage in the book's acknowledgements. After describing her involvement in the reform process through committee membership and "countless meetings," she notes that the book is "not in any sense an official or 'authorized' account of what happened. I have tried to make this record of the Core controversies as full and objective as possible and to give a fair...
McGee's two home runs--one a three-run blast in the fifth and the other a solo shot in the seventh--tied a record held by Tony Kubek and Charlie Keller for most home runs hit by a rookie in a World Series game...
Wall Street analysts, however, are more cautious. "I don't think we can scream that the recovery is at hand," says Maryann Keller of the Paine Webber investment firm. Even after an upbeat May, auto sales for the year so far are 36% less than during the same months in 1978. The automakers continue to confront the problems that first triggered their prolonged slump: high interest rates, a weak economy and fierce competition from Japanese imports. Says Fran McCormack, general manager of Clayton Motors Dodge in East Hartford, Conn.: "There are obviously a lot of people who need...
...play premiering at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in Charleston, S.C., has successfully made the transfer to Broadway. This one will. In Monday After the Miracle, William Gibson takes up the saga of Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, some 20 years after the events recorded in The Miracle Worker. In that play, Sullivan led the deaf and blind Keller in a long night's journey into light. The sequel is quite different. This is a tale of fiercely kindled passions and the bittersweet bondage of entwined destinies...