Word: manne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search of an ideal could at least begin, Campbell thinks, by searching through the myths of antiquity, religion and modern literature. For the elite who can read and understand them, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, among modern writers and poets, and Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee, among modern artists, have updated the ancient mythological motifs. Campbell and the other mythologists are, in a sense, providing the workbooks for the poets-the modern Daedaluses in turtlenecks. "It doesn't matter to me whether my guiding angel is for a time named Vishnu, Shiva, Jesus, or the Buddha," Campbell says...
...Mann responded to Isaac's criticism of the curriculum by saying, "until the conclusion of this case, it has been very difficult for me to put forth my own ideas on curricular change." Still, he said, he has first had to "improve courses within the existing curriculum that had not been of very high quality...
Kilbridge defers the question to Mann as Department Chairman, and Mann in turn leaves it up to the professors to make their own decision...
...future, I welcome Professors Isaac's and Vigier back into more active participation in the Department. They must make the first move when they feel it's appropriate, though. Frankly, it's up to them," Mann said...
Looking at the Department's overall condition. Mann asserts that it "has advanced very sharply in the past year and a half. We've been bringing in faculty from outside, not necessarily from an inbred group. We're emphasizing youth and we're taking about half our new faculty with doctoral training in planning and half with advanced training in other fields such as political science, economics and sociology. We're on the way up," he said