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...After attending both classes, I felt that Professor Garber's class offered more of an MTV view, that it seemed too fast for any real introspection into the plays," says Ryan T. McGee '98, who shopped both and opted for Greenblatt, "whereas Professor Greenblatt's class offered an in-depth and interesting view of the Shakespearean canon...
...class, "Moral Dilemmas of Management," used the popular MTV show to examine how business interests may be harmful to society...
...Before MTV became the sugar daddy of rock 'n' roll, before Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder was even out of grade school, before the term alternative rock was trampled into the mud at the overhyped Woodstock '94, there was R.E.M. The , band, formed in 1980, is known for its artful, challenging music as well as its emotive, elliptical lyrics. Rather than succumbing to common-denominator tastes and releasing music that is too easily accessible, it has followed its own eccentric muse. In doing so, it set a standard for such alternative bands of the '90s as Pearl Jam and Offspring...
...groups such as Duran Duran and Haircut 100. R.E.M., whose oblique songs dealt with provocative topics like Bible-thumping televangelists and complaints about American imperialism, provided an alternative to the British sludge that was washing up on U.S. shores. The band received little early support from radio or MTV, but by touring college towns and playing small clubs it steadily built a base of loyal fans. Its 1983 debut album, Murmur, sold more than 500,000 copies. In contrast, R.E.M.'s 1992 album, Automatic for the People, sold more than 3 million copies, and one of that album's tracks...
...used to infuriate me that we'd be this really good American band that had several records out and we couldn't buy airplay on radio or MTV, and all these English bands would put out mediocre records and they'd sell a million copies," recalls Buck. "But we won. We outlasted them. None of those bands is around, none of them does any good work. They're all working in whatever the '90s equivalent to a gas station is -- a sidewalk shish kebab stand or / something...