Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professor Victor Yellin will teach what should be a delightful course on Early Romantic Opera from Mozart to Meyerbeer. Don't expect a simple music appreciation course, however, because particular attention will be given to the problems of opera composition...
...subject of history that structuralism differs most decisively with preceding trains of thought, including Marxism and existentialism, both of which very nearly deify the historical process. Though the study of Marx helped teach Lévi-Strauss to look for patterns and driving forces in human affairs, he has cooled to its rigid, dogmatic approach. In his colloquial French he says: "I still have the tripe [guts] of a man of the left. But at my age I know it is tripe and not brain." As for Sartre, he is convinced that man has much to learn from history, while...
...dependents in Europe until 1964, has some novel ideas about how to create a university. Instead of starting with relatively cheap undergraduate liberal arts instruction and gradually acquiring expensive graduate specialists, he is luring major scholars with big salaries (up to $30,000) and complete freedom to research and teach only in their graduate-level specialties. Winstead shrewdly argues that "serious graduate students couldn't care less about the name of the school. They want to study under specific professors. The name Nova didn't have; the professors it could...
...Arab leaders still proclaim that their ambition is to build up enough strength to eradicate the state of Israel some day, even if it takes generations. They sound a little like Russian Czar Peter the Great, who remarked that he would force the Swedes to defeat him until "they teach us how to beat them...
...proliferation of specialized studies that constitute another severe strain on the resources of the private college and university. M.I.T. now offers its students an array of 2,966 courses-half of which did not exist a decade ago. Before World War II, a single professor could teach everything that Columbia expected a student to know about China; now he would pick up fragments of Sinology from 20 specialized scholars. Many of these new sciences, moreover, are primarily graduate specialties-and the universities run heavy deficits operating top M.A. and doctoral programs. University of Chicago officials estimate that they spend...