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TUTORIALS: We recommend that ALL departments offer introductory group tutorials for students who want an overview of a particular discipline. Students most interested would be freshmen who want an introduction to a possible field of concentration and who want to be eligible for junior and senior tutorials. Juniors and seniors might take introductory tutorials as well. In our conception, these tutorials would be historically and methodologically oriented. Most would be directed by departmental teaching fellows, and where expedient they might be affiliated with particular Houses without restricting enrollment to House members. Material covered in these tutorials should be determined...
...rest of this fall's PBS lineup includes a reprise of Lord Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and a continuation of the BBC's Masterpiece Theater. The opening Masterpiece production is a felicitous, six-week serialization of Jude the Obscure, which, except for the gloom-struck overview of Thomas Hardy, is a sort of high-class Peyton Place. The Lucy of public TV, Julia Child, is also back in a new 26-part series on French cuisine, "designed," she says, "as a refresher course for experienced cooks and as a jet-assist take-off for beginners...
Despite some of Dumont's arrogant posturing, Cuba: Socialism and Development gives a concise overview of the Cuban economy. Even though the book originated in French in 1964, two afterwards reasonably update the work. And Dumont covers the material with more knowledge than his predecessors. The book rewards, if only because its discussion of Cuba's economic development is in a field whose dearth of information endangers future experiments...
...search of a better understanding of twentieth century imperialism and the rise of socialism, Ramparts editor David Horowitz has written Empire and Revolution. In it, he manages to condense turgid material into a very readable overview of these problems...
HOROWITZ'S provocative discussion unfortunately opens more questions than it could ever answer, as indeed it must. A 258 page book which attempts to deal with sixty years of world history can at best try to be an overview of the subject. While Empire and Revolution is a credible and generally successful attempt, there are many problems with the book...