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...memory bank stuffed with 10,000 popular novels. Her books are put together with pieces of these old fictions. But there can be glitches: "Rosemary's word processor is on the blink and she is not getting the sort of scenes that Rogue Duke needs. But Redbook is pressing her. So Rosemary tries to dredge up some Georgette Heyer channel-packet stuff. Instead Rosemary gets a Bulwer-Lytton trireme, by mistake...
...ages? Of course not. Last week's critic disagrees with their solution to the general education problem, and so he finds the Core curriculum to be "no curriculum at all." Had the faculty been serious and honest, it would have turned to something like the 1945 Harvard Redbook version of general education which "unabashedly" defined the core of necessary knowledge as the "intellectual, political, and cultural heritage of the West." In those halcyon days, students in courses on "Great Texts in Literature" and "Western Thought and Institutions" were baptised en masse through total immersion in the great books and ideas...
...trouble is that in our time the Redbook's emphasis on transmitting the Western cultural heritage, while appealing to many faculty, strikes many others as intellectual parochialism. Certainly the Cure makes room for the teaching of those books and those ideas--and many of its courses do just than. But even the Redbook had another emphasis as well: on what in cultivating "certain aptitudes...traits and characteristics of mind." During the decades since the Second World War, that goal has come to be expressed, in much of the arts and sciences, through the development of distinctive disciplinary modes of thought...
...General Education was not providing Harvard students with anything like a liberal education, the administrative and Faculty bodies re-designing the curriculum advocated the need for a "Core" curriculum. The idea of a core was not novel. In 1945, when the General Education program was originally proposed in the Redbook--General Education in a Free Society--the Harvard curriculum, like those of many other liberal arts institutions, defined a body of knowledge which the Faculty considered essential for every educated person to know by virtue of being educated. And this "core" of knowledge unabashedly focused on the intellectual, political...
...ministers? For a year Kushner wrestled with the question in writing. The result, published in 1981, was When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Schocken Books; $10.95). It is an odd book-part classical theology, part cracker-barrel, self-help philosophy. But when an excerpt appeared in Redbook in the October 1981 issue, it made the author a national figure. Kushner, 47, the rabbi of Temple Israel in Natick, Mass., remembers the turning point well: "It was Rosh Hashana. We had just come home from services and were very tired. Suddenly the phone started ringing off the wall. All afternoon...