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...reasons for this decision--I mean the real ones, not the ones dished up for public consumption--have not yet seen the light of day. Because I do not teach the fiction course, I possess no special knowledge of these matters. But I have reason to believe that there may well be a very interesting story here: a story in which professional jealousy, personal vendetta, career ambition and craven capitulation to bureaucratic politics have combined to deny freshmen the one writing course they really want to take...
However, the departments possess one last line of resistance--the matter of finances. If tutorials are to be staffed completely by professors, Walls points out, departments will simply need to appoint more professors. As Henry Adams remarked, "The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money...
Some players developed personality conflicts with Moses. This happens on many teams at Harvard, but squash is an individual sport and requires the rapport necessary for solid student-teacher relationships. Beyond that, many of the players felt Moses simply did not possess the fundamental teaching skills...
Parents discovered, as if for the first time, how much their children could hurt them; some of the apparent aversion to children is a leftover fear of that palpable, demonstrated, maddening power that the young possess. Today, many new parents start with the lowest expectations about having children - everyone has told them how sick the family is - and then awake in astonished delight to find that the experience is (or can be) wonderful. It is possible that the U.S., with its long history of elaborate delusions about children, is beginning to grow up on the subject. - Lance Morrow
...Gong Show might tell you something, but not enough. An announcer says at the beginning that the show "is a search for the most beautiful girl in the world." Rip Taylor, a manic comedian, of no recognizable talent, hosts this obscenity in which six women, all of whom possess significantly less talent than Taylor, publicly humiliate themselves for a half-hour until a panel of "celebrities" (Edward Winter, Fred Travelena and "Dr." Joyce Brothers) judges one of them the winner. The winner receives, you guessed it, $1.98 in cash. About half the contest consists of Taylor's puerile remarks about...