Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of the Winthrop House Literary Series, DelBanco read his soon-to-be-published short story "The Writer's Trade," about Mark Fusco, a young author riding on a train that runs over a woman's body. The event leads to the protagonist's realization that his ambition to write great fiction can trivialize the very situations he depicts in his work...
...design ingenuity; it encourages filmmakers to plunder all the medium's resources, to create something that can exist only in the movies. Check out, for instance, Beetlejuice's vision of the afterlife -- it's hell as a strangled bureaucracy. In the waiting room, where the exit signs read NO EXIT, the dead still carry scars of their demise. A magician's assistant, who has been fatally sawed in half, occupies two seats on a couch. The social worker who runs the place is clearly overworked; she has an alarm on her wristwatch that plays Chopin's Funeral March in ricky...
...years a debate has raged at Stanford University and reverberated through scores of other schools over a question that could set new directions for American higher education. The issue: Should students be required to read a fixed core of works on Western civilization, and, if so, what should be in it? The heart of the dispute at Stanford has been whether to amend or remove from the university's freshman Western culture courses a roster of 15 prescribed classics. Many scholars regard those works, ranging from Homer and Dante to Darwin and Freud, as part of a sacred canon...
...white, Western males, will be pared down. Out goes Homer, as well as Darwin and Dante. The six new requirements are unspecified works from Plato, the Bible, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Rousseau and Marx. Next year Stanford's Western Culture Program will be formally replaced by CIV. All freshmen will read works "from at least one" non-European source chosen by the professor, who is required to give "substantial attention to issues of race, gender and class...
...computer CD, known in the industry as a CD ROM (for "read only memory"), is just 4.72 in. in diameter but can store as much information as a stack of typewritten pages nine stories high. Dozens of reference books, from Grolier's Academic American Encyclopedia to Roget's Thesaurus, have appeared in CD form, and many more...