Word: levins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...satirical revue entitled The Patriot, by the well-known Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin, opened in Tel Aviv last week and quickly became the center of a national controversy. The play is about a cynical young Israeli hero who buys land in the West Bank as a real estate investment, kicks an Arab shoeshine boy to show that he lives up to the standards of anti-Arab Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and later tries to figure out how to leave wartorn, inflation-ridden Israel by obtaining an immigrant visa to the U.S. In the end, alas, he dies while...
...defending the decision, Censorship Board Chairman Yehoshua Justman charged that the Levin play portrayed the Israeli people as "corrupt, degenerate, ruthlessly killing Arab children and degrading the Arabs...
...Studies. At Washington University in St. Louis, the science and math requirements, which were cut in half during the heady days of student power, have been restored to the old levels (four semester-long courses). "The students were evading the real purpose of their education," says Associate Dean Harold Levin, adding, in the language of deans everywhere, "The product we were turning out was not what we wanted." All told, according to a survey of 272 universities and colleges last spring, 88% are engaged in revising their curriculums, and 59% of these are increasing their programs of required courses...
...that the expected post-World War II technology boom would eventually lead to an "evaporation" of interest in the social sciences and humanities. Calling the origin of Gen Ed "another great event," Finley points to one of the plan's earliest successes: Humanities 3, which he taught with Harry Levin '33, Babbit Professor of Comparative Literature. "The Epic and the Novel" remained one of Harvard's most popular courses through the years, and, when last offered in 1973, it attracted more than 850 students, second in enrollment only to Harvard's all-time favorite, "Principles of Economics...
...Levin--who covered the novels for one term, while Finley took care of the epics during the other--recalls that his former colleague employed a "poetic approach" in doing "an apostle's job for classical culture...