Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Popular works are also receiving attention. This spring, in the same week that The Times printed a Yale student's defense of her senior thesis under the headline "Donald Duck, in Fact, Can Teach Students a Lot," Stephen King spoke at Harvard and was compared by Richard C. Marius, director of the Expository Writing program, to Henry James and Edgar Allan...
...little ironic, isn't it, that popular culture has so suddenly elevated the former Secretary of Education who advocated the tried and true classics? The same one who once berated Harvard for letting trendy Core courses displace Aristotle, has suddenly become a trend...
THIS twist of fate is worth savoring, in part, because it happened to William Bennett. But, beyond personalities, Bennett's fate seems so quirky simply because of the way it juxtaposes elite culture with popular culture. That incongruity itself is funny, the same way the very existence of A. Bartlett Giamatti--a scholarly baseball commissioner--struck us as funny...
...Harvard Core Curriculum is entering its second decade this fall. Nothing will magically make its work in the way its planners envisioned. However, it could at least make itself more popular by bridging the gulf between academia and the rest of the world--not just in content but also by changing the "approaches to thinking" it purports to be all about...
...that being popular is the most important thing when it comes to a "Core" program of learning; but then again, Bill Bennett seems to be smiling a lot more now that he's 'chic...