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SUSAN SCHIEFELBEIN'S piece in the recent Saturday Review, "Confusion at Harvard: What Makes an 'Educated Man'?" gives the impression that the Harvard community sighed collectively in relief, when the Core Curriculum was unveiled. The sigh, however, was more of a shudder, or perhaps a gulp of disbelief. It quickly became evident that Rosovsky and the Faculty Council were not fooling around; the reform was vast, bespeaking a change in the philosophy of education. Professors and the Committee on Undergraduate Education have proposed a slew of amendments--many of which have been neutralized by a heavily pro-Core Faculty Council...
Though diplomats may shudder, Carter is pretty talented at getting out of his remarks. Sometimes this amounts to repudiating a position, but Carter seems more bent on showing that at least he hadn't meant to deceive anyone. His soft-voiced answers at press conferences (with which he is generous) or in friendly televised White House "conversations" turn away wrath. Gerald Ford achieved the same effect. Such an improvement in Government and press manners is welcome, but there have been times when a little asperity on either side did a better job of illuminating an issue...
...hard to swallow, it is partly because the epic is flecked with moments of perverse brutality, a kind of sensuous enjoyment of the grotesque. At the film's end, scenes that made the audience shudder aloud in the opening few minutes are repeated; and now they seem commonplace, even acceptable, for the film had had far more brutal moments. At times, Bertolucci's love for vivid detail and for visual lushness results in scenes of great beauty--a bride galloping on a white horse through the mist and poplar trees, a small boy playing in the river, a group...
...fiance. But the dry winy brilliance of Pirandello dominates the evening. He carved out the themes of loneliness, absurdity and alienation, and in the 41 years since his death, serious modern drama has become a realm of metaphysical dread of which he felt the first tormented shudder...
...pure circulation, all three network news shows together attract just 74% of the viewers," says Arledge. He adds with a shudder: "More than a quarter of the people get their news elsewhere. Half the television station owners around the country are just businessmen who can't be trusted to cover news with any responsibility, and their local news directors are extensions of their sales forces." The way to draw many of their viewers to ABC, Arledge suggests, is to have "responsible but vigorous and fresh journalism." Over at the other networks, people wonder how responsible ABC will be once...