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...People who choose to be abstinent] should still know everything there is to be taught about orgasm, about caressing, about contraceptives, about STDs, about everything,” Westheimer said...
...Friday after a 42-year hiatus, speaking to a crowd about his work on a new World Trade Center tower and the importance of fitting a building’s design to its context. Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993 and taught at the GSD from 1962 to 1965, also emphasized the use of aesthetics that are common across cultures. “Many people are saying globalizations [sic] are killing local cultures, but it seems to me we should not forget universal values,” said Maki, speaking in a packed...
...consoling myself with the delusion that my budding love of air guitar was of the ironic sort.I was forced to abandon this stance after a particularly aggressive attempt to perfect my “power windmill” stroke. Sustaining air-induced injuries to my neck and strumming arm taught me that, though the tongue begins very much in the cheek of every air guitarist, it is not long before that tongue is bared Gene Simmons-style and lolling about for all to see. “It’s funny,” says Crane of this inevitable...
...government over grand jetés. Nevertheless, former New York City Ballet (NYCB) principal Heather Watts is in the middle of a stint as visiting lecturer on dramatic arts in the Harvard Dance Program, instructing a new ballet class on technique and repertory. Last semester, Watts taught an academic class at Harvard on the work of George Balanchine, the renowned choreographer and founder of NYCB. “I was scared to death,” says Watts when asked how she initially felt about teaching the course. Before each class, Watts says that she felt just a bit faint...
...using research assistance or a month of paid summer time). Compelling and effective courses will be in demand for secondary fields and electives as well as general education—and three years from now we should see a higher proportion of undergraduate courses with lively and unspecialized content, taught using creative instructional methods. Especially as we develop new and revised offerings for general education, we must not rush. If faculty are in a hurry to get their courses certified, and if students demand instant and infinitely flexible menus of offerings, established courses will just be relabeled, providing little improvement...