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...First, Cultural Rhythms is a minefield of convoluted social logic. The premise behind the show is quite simple: the "culture"-free audience observes a parade of "cultural" student groups on stage as they display "ethnicity." Somehow along the way, the audience is supposed to learn, engage and share in our multicultural campus. Unfortunately, little learning actually takes place as they display ethnicity through dance and song...
First, Cultural Rhythms is a minefield of convoluted social logic. The premise behind the show is quite simple: the "culture"-free audience observes a parade of "cultural" student groups on stage as they display "ethnicity." Somehow along the way, the audience is supposed to learn, engage and share in our multicultural campus. Unfortunately, little learning actually takes place as they display ethnicity through dance and song...
...Running Jordan is like working in a minefield," said Al-Ississ. "The country was unified by the Jordanian people's love of Hussein...
...these guys? There's John Travolta, briefly. And Nick Nolte and a nicely unmannerist Sean Penn. And many young faces we must strain to identify. Malick, a poker player or a mystic, does not easily yield information. His story is a meadow with a minefield...
...glean the most from their educational experience. It provides even less guidance for the heart and soul, adroit psychological counseling--evidence of a caring in loco parentis--being somehow distasteful and undignified to the institution of Harvard, and this ironically at the very point students are crossing that emotional minefield between adolescence and young man--or womanhood. Harvard's famous house system, however appealingly genteel, addresses neither of these gaps and remains grossly inadequate to undergraduate needs, the ratio of students to master being far too huge and the accident of a happy match between student and master being...