Word: presents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head-in-the-clouds attitude of sociologists, who spend too much time in the library and not enough time in the streets. Irish and German immigrant crime a century ago is a historical fact but not an excuse for today's crime. Father Fitzpatrick and other sociologists should present workable solutions to immigrant crime instead of simply apologizing...
...have not had this core. Separate sections in a course might be a simple answer here. A more difficult problem is that of time. Ec. 1, 98, and 99 already constitute three-fifths of the required courses. A central core program of another three semesters would aggravate the present lack of flexibility...
...proposal for a new type course to replace the far-flung surveys. They would probe smaller areas, but penetrate deeper. Based on the combined desire to attract more students, and the premise that the goal is a more intelligent understanding of the public issues of the past and present, the courses would be designed around the topical approach. Examples would be courses on the corporation, on the economic impact of government activity, the present course on the Soviet Union, a half-year course on underdeveloped countries. In discussing this approach, Dunlop stressed that these would not be "watered down versions...
...Economics Department this is a time of discussion, but it must soon reach the hour of decision. Certainly the present situation is not tolerable. By its over-concern with theoretical models and tools, the Department has separated itself from the true materials of a liberal arts education in economics. It should not, however, allow itself to reach the other extreme, in its quest for concentrators, of reducing the content of the courses to a point where an economics student is no more qualified to discuss and solve an issue of political economy than an intelligent government concentrator...
Though the cutting could be better in places, "Mark Twain Tonight" is well worth seeing. Holbrook does a convincing job of acting, talking and looking like Twain, and he manages to present a fairly accurate picture of Twain's often bitter outlook and yet preserve a genuinely funny show...