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Like black studies programs, women's studies have been criticized as a fad, or as simply a disguised form of consciousness-raising talk sessions. Cornell Historian L. Pearce Williams, for one, calls them "rather silly," "worthless," and "a lot of nonsense." His argument: "A lot of these courses are not scholarly, they're ideological. They're out to indoctrinate rather than illuminate." Teachers of women's studies reject such criticisms. "Actually," observes Portland State Professor Nancy Porter, "consciousness raising is what education is all about." Professors Annette Baxter and Suzanne Wemple of Barnard agree...
...these courses frequently arouse. Mary Anne Ferguson, professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, observes: "The depression builds up as the essentially negative reflection of women is documented in story after story, and even women authors offer little hope as they show women wasting their lives tied to worthless men or driven to suicide by the very awareness that such a course is trying to develop. One can try to substitute anger for depression, but the problems of channeling the anger constructively remain...
...ACTING is all very competent, and sometimes superlative. Laurence Olivier is excellent as an aging Count Witte, urging Nicholas not to order mobilization and start a war that would surely change the nature of the world while killing millions for a worthless cause. Alan Webb and Jack Hawkins also turn in good performances. Tom Baker is very fine as the lewd and mysterious Rasputin whose deep blue eyes meant the ruin of many good diplomats and the violation of even more young women. All the characters possess a remarkable physical similarity to their historical conterparts; in Lenin's case...
...philosophies and religions with a basis of anthropocentrism, all histories backed by a belief in determinism--these are worthless, misleading and wrong if Monod's argument is believed. Man's position in nature is the result of pure random genetic accident; he, just like all other living beings, evolved the way he did by pure chance. Man's development and his histories similarly are neither mysterious nor predictable: they are, however, explicable: man's emotions and capacities have been predisposed, built into his chemical and genetic makeup, all by random molecular events...
...Schwartz, director of the Hennepin County program: "If the people with master's degrees who come to us had their intuitive skills, we'd be a lot further down the road." The once wayward Dan, now off probation, credits the Morins with transforming him from a worthless roustabout into a steadily employed construction worker with a union badge. "All my life I've been in trouble," he admits. "But they came over and made me talk. Now I feel grown up. It's not that they order you to do things. They're more like...