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...system, which will cost several hundred thousand dollars, will serve primarily administrative and scientific purposes. Students will not be allowed access to the network...
TRICKLING DOWN: The ongoing controversy over the elimination this year of "radical" sections for mega-popular Social Analysis 10. "Principles of Economics," likely will be fueled again when council members finish reviewing their recent survey of the thousand-student class. Academic tempers first flared when Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein, fresh from two years of speaking his mind in Washington, cut out the radical option as part of a general streamlining effort...
...present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine on his shoes or Busby Berkeley deploy his battalion of chorines in giddily precise formations or the Nicholas Brothers take flight and dare each other to come down first...
...present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine on his shoes or Busby Berkeley deploy his battalion of chorines in giddily precise formations or the Nicholas Brothers take flight and dare each other to come down first...
...several hundred thousand dollar system is similar to but less extensive than, networks at schools such as Brown...