Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from a large group of specialized courses designed primarily for concentrators. These men root through introductions, to the Astronomy of the Solar System, Elementary Anthropology, or the Tacties and Techniques of Field Artillery with little idea that distribution was designed to dispense a knowledge of the important principles in modern society. In the area of Social Sciences, many students again pick large lecture courses that offer an introduction to the field and not an evaluation of its influence on the world...
...last February of His Eminence Al Sheikh Mustafa Abdel Razek, the rectorship has been vacant and the university split by feuds. At the same time Al Azhar's position of Islamic leadership is threatened by a swirling current of social change, and by the emergent authority of two modern, secular universities (Fuad el Awal and Farouk el Awal...
Down with Shaw. Since 1930, a modern system of classrooms and laboratories has been introduced side by side with the old carpet seminars. In new buildings next to the mosque, three faculties of Theology, Law and Letters teach students of the "new" Azhar. Many of these professors are laymen, educated in European universities. After eight years, a new-Azhar student gets his Alimieh (doctorate); in the old Azhar, many students spend their whole lives in learning...
...with the percussive rhythms of his Rite of Spring is a great respecter of convention. Actually, wrote Stravinsky, "the more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free. If everything is permissible to me, the best and the worst, then any effort is inconceivable. . . ." The anarchic modern composer has become "a monster of originality, inventor of his own language, of his own vocabulary. ... So he comes to the point of speaking an idiom without relation to the world that listens...
...MODERN BRITISH WRITING (320 pp.)-Edited by Denys Val Baker-Vanguard1...