Word: reines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evaluating and restructuring undergraduate education is no easy task. When the Faculty last tackled the issue around 1963, in the Doty Committee review, no conclusion was reached and the Faculty at that point began to relinquish its tight rein on the direction of undergraduate education. The staple of that education--General Education--first emerged at Harvard after World War II. It was, at the time, a revolutionary idea, and Harvard, always a leader in its field, took the Gen Ed gauntlet from Chicago and Columbia. Gen Ed was set up amidst post-war optimism with the idea that an educated...
...week to ratify or reject that agreement and, as Healey bluntly put it, more severe welfare cuts than he has already planned could "bust the relationship between the unions and the government." With minimal fanfare, in order to avoid upsetting the unions, the government has already put a tighter rein on municipal welfare spending, cut a scheduled pension raise by one-third, and indefinitely postponed a new child-benefit scheme. But Healey turned aside demands from the opposition Conservatives for more sweeping cutbacks with an admonishment that "the most important thing is not to panic and lose our nerve." More...
...author of Berlinguer and the Professor is not unaware of the many-faced nature of Italian politics. But if he has a sincere attitude (and in the introductory note he claims to be giving "free rein to the sincerity of my imagination") the message is lost in a sarcasm as confusing as the shifting allegiances of the political situation it mocks. The overtly cardboard characters of the book fight battles that are all sham; the only thing left dead onstage is belief. Laughing at this skeptical satire is too easy an escape from the complex problems of reality, too condescending...
...even in familiar surroundings, seek to shelter themselves in dimness. It is only when their sources begin to open up, to find release in confession, that they begin to be seen in full and, literally, sympathetic light. In these moments one knows that Redford has given his director free rein, confident that good would come...
...Follies is an intriguing concoction. Its authors, Paris K.C. Barclay, Steven Gordon Crist and Mark O'Donnell, have seized on a wellworn theme--the fraudulent underbelly of American life, symbolized by the special sham of Hollywood, attached it to a frankly derivative score and allowed their creative instincts free rein. Their product is far from disastrous--in spite of its flaws, Bicentennial Follies is almost consistently entertaining; but, not too surprisingly, it is hardly a dramatically unified whole...