Word: overview
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...added that she first became interested in general education when she took a class last spring called “Curriculum and Instruction in American Higher Education,” taught by Education professor Julie A. Reuben. According to Calareso, a section of the course provided an intensive overview of the history of the College’s curriculum, from the elective system under former President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, to today’s imminent Gen Ed program. The class encouraged her to reflect on the value of a college education, Calareso said...
...pleased to see that the schedule of three debates recently agreed upon by the campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain includes considerable opportunities for questioning and free-form discussion. In the newly agreed upon formats, each topical segment will contain a few minutes for an opening overview, followed by several minutes of open-ended debate in which the candidates will be able to directly engage with one other. This is a clear improvement over a more rigid structure, as it helps emphasize what makes the debates such unique events on the campaign calendar: their ability to force candidates...
...Manny said with matter-of-fact poignance, "what I'd really like is to be considered one of the 100 best American artists." This was just around the time he was segueing from large abstract paintings to his overview collages. I've seen Manny's paintings, but only as reproduced in a catalogue. And I'm no art historian. So I called upon the expertise of Richard Lacayo, Time's art critic and, not incidentally, a serious film connoisseur. Richard e-mails me that Manny "frequently did these bird's-eye views (I call them table tops) in which...
...makes him a trusted adviser. Benchley's story embraces the debate over invading Honduras (Ronald Reagan's earlier incursion into Nicaragua having failed) and a yachtload of American homosexuals who threaten to blow up a Soviet supertanker in Cuba. But all that is mere backdrop for a mordant overview of Washington props and icons: a Cabinet Room table has buttons underneath marked ''Coke, Tab, Fresca, Pepsi, Coffee, Tea.'' When told that he is heading for the wrong aircraft, the President roars, ''Son, they're all my helicopters.'' At the end, ''Q'' Clearance dangles an intriguing question: Where did a onetime...
...Factory 420 made airplane engines for the North in the Vietnam War. To raise consciences, and collective guilt, the factory brandished a photo of a young pilot who had been killed in a crash of a plane assembled there. The film interweaves the political overview - of a city institution being torn down to be replaced by commercial and residential buildings - with personal anecdotes that are poignant and charming. One woman recalls being at her parent's home with seven siblings, saying, "It was like an elephant living in the stomach of a sparrow...