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From pornographic violence to the outright bizarre to crazy gimmicks, the "Renegade Cinema of Doris Wishman," opening tomorrow at the Harvard Film Archives, offers the obscure film-lover a smorgasboard film-maker of the 60's and 70's, Wishman has been lost to the public eye for over a decade. She was purportedly found in a little lingerie shop in Miami and the Film Archive rushed her here for a retrospective...
Doctoroff, who originally came up with the idea for the talent smorgasboard, said that last year she became "a little frustrated with what was happening musically at Harvard." Although she is a singer, she said she did not feel the a capella groups were "where she wanted...
...financial incentives to achieve set standards may result in a narrowing of curriculum and homogenization of higher education. "There is widespread recognition that the smorgasboard approach in the 60s and 70s didn't serve students as well as it might," said Banta, who operates under a system of financial incentives. "If we find a middle ground between telling students exactly what to do and the cafe-style approach of before, we will have narrowed the curriculum somewhat. But that's not all bad," she said...
...arts education and a core curriculum to mean acquaintance with the methods of the various academic disciplines From "Principles of Economics" to "Sources of Indian Civilization" to "Sub-Saharan African Civilizations" to "Politics. Mythology and Art in Bronze Age China" the Core curriculum offerings read more like a mini-smorgasboard of the more extensive departmental offerings than a coherent view of "articulate educational priorities." Far from liberating students, such a curriculum makes them selves of the techniques for narrow academic study...
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