Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ozment says that the department does not believe that tutors can provide useful instruction in areas with which they are unfamiliar. One tutor points out, however, that while it is difficult to teach an unfamiliar topic, there is no reason to assume that non-Western or "Third World" topics are any less familiar to a Medieval historian than the subtleties of Freudian theory--a new topic under the recent proposals...
...PROBLEMS DESCRIBED will be compounded by other proposed changes, such as the planned omission of subtopics on women in nineteenth century America, and Marxist theory. Though not popular among tutors, the "women in history" topic should be left as an alternative for those who wish to teach it. The symbolic gesture of removing the reading list on women from circulation is a very confusing signal from a department that claims to be open-minded...
...elimination of the Marxism unit has provoked a notable amount of dismay from students and tutors alike. It is cited as the most popular topic on the list, and interest in it this year crossed lines of political partisanship. One tutor reports. "One of my most Reaganite students found the section on alienation particularly absorbing." Tutors also say that the opportunities for reading Marx in the original are fairly rare and that this leads to many misinterpretations of his writings in subsequent work...
Reagan greeted two dozen Hispanic leaders in the Cabinet Room and conferred with them in private after photographers were allowed to take a few pictures. Aides Lyn Nofziger and Elizabeth Dole sat in on the meeting. One topic of the discussion: Reagan's efforts to place Hispanics in Government positions...
...into Elaine wandering glassy-eyed behind Lowell House. Elaine had, two days before, decided to rewrite 60 pages of her thesis. She was trying to write a government thesis for the History Department, and her adviser knew nothing about her topic, Elaine told Heather that she had frantically begged Stuart, a junior and a born editor, to look over her thesis, and that, of course. Stuart had eaten up the attention. That night, in fact, he pored over Elaine's first draft for hours. When he took a break, it was to visit Heather and ask how her conclusion...