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...addition to teaching, Damrosch says he plans to listen to the concerns of students and faculty as he considers possible changes in the undergraduate curriculum. “Right now the emphasis has been more on literary theory, not so much on language study,” he says. Damrosch says he believes theory can be studied together with works of literature, and favors more departmental encouragement of language study...
...tone was set from Obama's first public remarks in London on Wednesday, at a press conference with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, where the American President said he had come "to listen, not to lecture." At a joint appearance with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Baden-Baden on Friday, a German reporter asked Obama about his "grand designs" for NATO. "I don't come bearing grand designs," Obama said, scrapping the leadership role the U.S. maintained through the Cold War. "I'm here to listen, to share ideas and to jointly, as one of many NATO allies, help shape...
...turns out that PB&J are far weaker when gunning for clever or thoughtful than when they’re at their most crass and impudent. This is where they seem to have the most fun and, in turn, where their music is the most fun to listen to.There’s not anything particularly offensive about most of these songs, but outside of “Lay it Down” and “Nothing to Worry About,” this album isn’t particularly interesting or memorable. Certainly, making a boring album...
...floors. Rather, it aims to combat the stressors that many long-term hospital patients and the gravely ill face during recovery. Patients are prescribed a schedule of musical compositions, the energy levels of which are designed to parallel their daily activities. SANOSON patients are prescribed sets of music to listen to for a set number of hours over the week to this end, the ultimate goal of which is to ease the strain of recovery. To date, there has been little clinically-backed research in this field, for the simple reason that music therapy exists outside of any single discipline...
...Despite this ostensible agreement between administration, faculty and students regarding the necessary balance between the making and the theorizing of art, tensions remain due to what students feel is the administration’s failure to listen to their concerns...