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...attention given to television at Harvard. “It’s silly, I think. There should be at least one person whose job is [to study] TV.”“There’s been a leveling of cultural artifacts,” says Menand. “That kind of rigid stratification of cultural artifacts is no longer very persuasive to people.” Though it may seem obvious to point out, a work is only “great” or “highbrow” if people decide that...
...Boston Harbor Hotel.FROM ONE TO THE OTHERWhile the length of Summers’ tenure—the shortest since the Civil War—might be unusual, the onslaught of criticism at its close is by no means unique. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand recalls controversy surrounding presidential searches dating back to 1909. President Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, transformed Harvard into a research university. Forty years later, a lack of structure in the curriculum led to his ouster. His successor—A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877—created...
...Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, another member of the Committee on General Education, said there is a very good chance the proposals for an overhaul of the Core will fall through...
...reference to Bok’s preference for more carefully delineated categories of courses, Menand pointed out that when Bok started to develop the idea for the Core in the early 70s, it was a very different...
...Since we don’t really know who is going to be in charge, maybe we want to wait and find out who that person is first,” Menand said...