Word: teach
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...embarassing literary and political naivete. At one point the commission says it "recognizes the danger of lapsing into fuzzy-minded ecstacy over the umlimited social potential of the new electronic technology." But in a particularly nauseating passage electronic media are described as "magnificent electronic extensions of ourselves which can teach, and heal and inspire, if we use them not for the ruthless pursuit of the least common denominator but for their highest human potential. They give us the tools to lead the world out of ignorance and misery." You've got to be kidding...
Kenneth O. Dike, Mellon Professor of African History, said yesterday he might teach a Core survey course on African civilization in the Foreign Languages and Cultures category in collaboration with several other professors. The course would take an interdisciplinary approach to African culture and would be taught by African historians, anthropologists and linguists, Dike said...
Several courses on the Middle East might also be included in the Core offerings which will appear for the first time next year. Clausen said. William A. Graham, assistant professor of Islamic Religion, may teach a course on the Koran, Clausen said. Graham could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...Mingus gets out of his large and motley horn section is, for want of a much better word, "sloppy" in just the way he must have wanted it. He often spoke longingly of the days when the music was less complex and the musicians less literate, when he would teach each player his part by rote--he said that that music swung more than written music ever could. At its best, this band is free and sensitive; Mingus's rhythms and harmonies are felt as well as understood. At times, the sound is thick with instruments, over-reaching, trying...
...sprinter's speed, exquisite balance and lightning reflexes. "But the mental aspect is what sets him above the rest," says Frank Costello, the Maryland track coach. "He has unbelievable maturity for his age. He's the ultimate competitor, and that's something you can't teach...