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Persians & Dante. On the undergraduate level, the pursuit begins in the widest possible ways. When the curtain goes up, it is to reveal the entire sweep of Western civilization. With none of the old, narrow surveys, students are required to take at least six broad general-education courses, distributed throughout the humanities and the social and natural sciences. This amounts to a study of giant themes-e.g., the ideas of good v. evil in Western literature, freedom and authority in the modern world, the principles of science. From the start, students read Homer, St. Augustine, Dante and Tolstoy, study...
Starting the second period, the Crimson fell behind by its widest margin of the night, 14 points. Krinsky's two set shots and Sack's six foul conversions enabled the team to pull up at half-time, however, 33 to 21. The Crimson's two high point men for the night, Sacks and Dennis with 16 apiece, scored only one field goal between them in the half, and the team had only four altogether...
...direction of bringing the President in closer touch with the people, hoped that soon the conferences could be filmed for TV. But others deplored it as a move toward nullifying the value of the press conference by turning it into a show. Said the New York Times: "The widest dissemination of news is all to the good. [But] there is the danger that the participants will become mere actors in a gigantic show, and that goes both for newspapermen who ask the questions and the President who answers them...
Surprise. Then the Trib pulled a surprise. Instead of coming out with its full morning edition, fat with ads that other struck papers could not print, the Trib ran 2,000,000 copies of an eight-page paper with no ads at all, "in order to give the widest possible distribution to the day's basic news." There was another reason for the thin paper that had little to do with distributing the day's basic news. The Trib, though not directly involved in the strike, actually had as much to lose as any of the struck papers...
Before the Navahos came, Pueblo forebears of the Hopi and Zuni Indians lived in the canyon. They turned its widest caves into apartment houses big enough for hundreds of families each, and decorated the walls with mysterious figures such as the rabbits at left. Still farther back in the darkness of the canyon's Stone Age lived the so-called Basket Makers, who had no pottery and no bows & arrows. Like Europe's earliest painters, they pictured their own hands flat against the rock, as if to say simply: "We were here...