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...Birth of a Nation," directed by pioneer silent-film maker D.W. Griffith, was released in 1915. It is generally considered a landmark film--it was the first to use moving cameras and night filming. It presents a militantly anti-black view of the South during Reconstruction
ASHARP SENSE of betrayal brought Hemingway to write so cynically of his compatriot expatriot Eliot shortly after the publication of The Waste Land in 1922. But like Hemingway, young American writers in Europe and at home were stunned by the reactionary sentiments being voiced by this pioneer poet--a man who, along with Ezra Pound, had created a new sense of the past as a vital part of the present and future, no longer as a static, restrictive force. Now, with his apocalyptic view of the decline of western civilization, Eliot seemed to argue the superiority of the past...
Just how difficult this is to do is demonstrated by the Larsen family's travails on The New Land (ABC, Saturday, 8 p.m. E.D.T). This series is based vaguely on Jan Troell's beautifully photographed, movingly understated and intensely serious films about a family of Swedish pioneer farmers working the Minnesota prairies about 20 years before the Ingallses arrived there. Yet the atmospheric authenticity that sustained Troell's movies is apparently impossible to duplicate on a television snooting schedule. Worse, in contrast to Little House, which keeps a tight focus on a single family, thus stressing...
...cheating incident as a sign that it should crack down on innovative instructional and teaching methods because they make it, as Dean Whitlock said last week, "easy and even tempting to cheat." Paul G. Bamberg, associate professor of Physics and the instructor of Physics S-1, has been a pioneer in developing methods of self-paced teaching that are designed to emphasize individual learning rather than performance on final exams, an emphasis that pre-med courses at Harvard badly need. Although Bamberg may not have been sufficiently wary of the possibility of cheating in the course, his sentiments in structuring...
...already burdened International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry to settle the issue. The union still has not determined who first made elements 104 and 105, for which each side has filed claims and names. The Russians are calling 104 "kurchatovium" (after their A-bomb pioneer, Igor Kurchatov) and 105 "niels bohrium" (for the famed Danish physicist). Americans have dubbed 104 "rutherfordium" (after the English scientist Ernest Rutherford) and 105 "hahnian" (for German Chemist Otto Hahn, who discovered nuclear fission...