Word: smorgasbord
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...have legitimate and sometimes conflicting claims that "must be reconciled within a framework of mutual understanding and compromise." He deplored equally the ignorant taxpayer who sneers at "newfangled" courses and the student who would blithely eliminate all the required courses and grades, making "education a kind of four-year smorgasbord." Reagan also warned against educators who deny that there are any absolutes, "who see no black and white of right or wrong but just shades of grey in a world where discipline of any kind is an intolerable interference." This same kind of teacher, Reagan added, frequently "interprets his academic...
...become a profitable showcase for new talent. The producers boast that Comic Bill Cosby got his first national TV break on the show and that Barbra Streisand did her bit there a year before Funny Girl. A good deal of the show time, however, is devoted to warmed-over smorgasbord: Arthur Godfrey demonstrates his recipe for beans de luxe, Cassius Clay trades a few playful punches with Douglas...
Last week the Met concluded a ten-day Verdi stand in Newport, R.I., that combined familiar pieces with a smorgasbord of the unfamiliar representing musicological digging at its frenzied best. The top events were a series of open-air concert performances of Verdi operas, ranging from the well-loved La Traviata and // Trovatore to the ripsnorting, deliriously difficult / Vespri Siciliani. The singing was predictably proficient, the Festival Field amplification acceptable and the attendance fair...
...hilltop overlooking the sleepy little town of Cahors in southwestern France near Héreil's country home. The ten-week, six-hour-a-day course (with a tab of $3,000 plus the price of meals for each executive and his wife), was something of a smorgasbord. It mixed Europe's theoretical pedagogy with the case-study methods of U.S. business schools. French and U.S. instructors, including two men from the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, delved into everything from the unity of man to the technology gap and international...
Although chartered as a university, the New School has no science labs, no college clubs, no athletic teams. What keeps New Yorkers coming to its three-building, modern "campus" in Greenwich Village is an ever-changing curriculum that is almost as contemporary as a daily newspaper. Its smorgasbord of noncredit classes ranges from "The Art of Singing Folk Songs" to the crassly commercial "What the Editor Wants: Media Placement in Public Relations." In the spring of 1965, the New School ran a course on the Warren Commission findings; this term it has a continuing series of lectures on the Viet...