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Harvard presidents and deans have been revolutionizing education every so often for the past hundred years. It's a preoccupation with them, or so it seems. Late in the nineteenth century, Eliot started the elective system. Early in the twentieth century, Lowell instituted a program of undergraduate concentrations. Later on, Lowell began the House system. And then Conant wrote the red book with its insistence on the principle of general education. Now, less than 30 years after the last educational revolution, Bok and Rosovsky have a brand new revolution up their ivy-covered sleeves...
...with wile and culture. She lives alone and sleeps around to keep herself sexually vital; she talks tough, sizing her men like a butcher does his meat. And she wonders what it is to be a woman. Then this so modern woman involves herself in a romance made of nineteenth-century novels's stuff. She's got 'seventies style, but it must be all facejob. The woman inside launches way, unfashionably back...
...long for the good old days of the last century--the very times in which the seeds of its own most pressing problems were sown. And at the same time as Jim Rippe, an artisan in an age dominated by machines, waxes a trifle sentimental about the early nineteenth century, he makes fun of his own nostalgia by leavening his antiquarianism with cheerfully anachronistie Day-Glo colors and plastic. The final irony is that every piece in the show is made of material which is totally unsuitable for internal-combustion engines...
Time--at least the 70 years since Sullivan's death--judged differently. The taste for Victorian serious music, meaning music composed in classically-established forms, went into decline as the self-satisfaction of late nineteenth-century society was eclipsed by a far less sentimental age of world wars and totalitarianism. This decline in appreciation has ended; a watershed has been reached...
...fortunate Farah workers. In response, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers -- who are spearheading the unionization drive -- testified before the National Labor Relations Board that the average hourly wage at Farah is $1.80. Farah has cited no figures in its ads, so it must be assumed that the company has a nineteenth century definition for average wage...