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This semester’s mass-class, Professor Menand??s Art and Thought of the Cold War, included Anatole Broyard’s 1948 article “A Portrait of the Hipster,” the title of which conveys the gist of the remaining six pages. Examination, dissection, analysis, and historicization of cultural movements is hard to do, as they are unfolding and moving from individual to collective manifestations. Lady Gaga’s “Telephone,” however, is the most popular cultural text by which we can begin a discourse...
...English professor Louis Menand??one of the architects of the Gen Ed program—said that he would love to see great books courses being taught in the new curriculum since they “would look new” amidst a Gen Ed slate heavily populated with curricular holdovers...
...Department of English approved the most wholesale restructuring of its undergraduate program last week since World War II. But Louis Menand??the English professor who has had the most experience with curricular change—said that the current proposal still needs work...
...With a vote of 168 to 14—with 11 abstentions—professors welcomed the new general education program with a mix of enthusiasm and exhaustion. Menand??s early sense of victory had proved prescient, but the cultural historian admitted he is now anxious about the future of the program...
After four years at Harvard, English professor Louis Menand??a mastermind behind the general education program that will replace the Core Curriculum—will return to New York City for a sabbatical. “I am Class of ’07 too, in a way,” Menand wrote in an e-mailed statement last week. For the next year, The New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author will be a fellow at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library, where he will work...