Word: plato
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Undaunted by these obstacles, educators and high tech companies are spending huge sums to prove the skeptics wrong Control Data Corporation reputedly invested almost a billion dollars in the computerized college curriculum, PLATO. With assistance from major companies, Brown, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, and other institutions are each spending tens of millions of dollars in equipment and programming to "wire" their campuses. Against the backdrop of these developments. Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Science has launched a comprehensive review of how technology might be best put to use for research, administrative, and not, least educational purposes. It is high time...
...justification for a homogenous curriculum if the majority of Americans do not attend college. "If we feel a common culture is that important, how come we're letting three-fifths of our people get away without it?" Glazer asks, "I think you can be a good citizen without reading Plato...
Ginsberg: My main interest was art for art's sake, purely literary. But literary means a lot of different things. There is an old saying by Plato or Pythagoras, "when the mode of the music changes the walls of the city shake." Or, what [William Carlos] Williams said, "the new world is only a new mind." Or, Blake: "the eye altering, alters all." When there is a new perception in poetry and a change of the form, it generally means a change of body rhythm, a change in thinking about language, and a change in consciousness itself. And this...
...filled with such arch utterances. F. Scott Fitzgerald plants a definition in his notebook: "Debut--the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public." Choreographer Martha Graham admits, "I am a thief --and I am not ashamed. I steal from the best wherever it happens to me --Plato--Picasso--Bertram Ross--the members of my company never show me anything--except (to) expect me to steal...
...Bowie's pal Iggy Pop; one is a nifty old Leiber and Stoller tune; and another is an unlikely remake of Brian Wilson and Tony Asher's Beach Boys classic God Only Knows, on which Bowie starts out sounding like Bing Crosby crooning from deep inside Plato's cave. But underneath all the precision production and the surgically assured musicianship are messages of lyrical turbulence, full of fleet, elusive imagery that hangs in the air like a haunting. As the album's last song, Dancing with the Big Boys, reminds us, "Where there's trouble...