Word: overview
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Posters around the Yard announced in unusual effort to increases student awareness of courses in women's studies. The Committee on Women's Studies held an open wine and cheese gathering at the Freshman Union yesterday to discuss two overview courses in the field...
...School. He says that while most public managers currently come from business school that trend will change with the emergence of K-School type public policy schools, which he thinks can offer a more varied curriculum. "The different subjects that you are exposed to here give one a broad overview and make it more useful to a public manager than going to the Harvard Business School," he says...
...People, Yes? No. Elkin is reaching for something bigger, a Fiddler on the Roof of Western civilization with self-deprecating navvies suffering every slight of outrageous fate, from wars to plagues and back again. Elkin's overview is encapsulated early on when the first George tarries too long before a glorious tapestry. The owner stays the blow of an impatient courtier, allows the stableboy an additional moment of art appreciation and then adds, "When you've done, go out quietly." That, implies the author, is the history of the commoner before his betters. But in Elian...
...freshness and clarity. They have added a bright red color throughout for emphasis. Complicated material has been arranged in orderly columns. The new system makes it easy to pick out what is relevant and skip what is not. A new table of contents on the inside cover gives an overview of the task ahead. And then the sequence starts: Step 1, Step 2, in an easy downward flow, until at Step 8, which is the bottom line, "Refund or tax payment...
...reader's ear, so did the voice of new talent. Trust remains Ozick's only published novel. Her reputation rests mainly on collections of short fiction: The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories and Bloodshed and Three Novellas. In these works, the author's philosophical and social overview narrowed and intensified. She could be outrageously satirical about current styles of New York life, but her more serious concerns centered on Jewish tradition and culture...