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...Survey courses are diabolical," says GoeletProfessor of French History Patrice Higonnet, whovolunteered to teach History 10b. "It isn't byteaching this that we're going to make our name inthe field. You've got to do it out of a sense ofmissionary zeal...
...That zeal was hard to find in the Fine ArtsDepartment, which stopped offering surveys partlybecause it could not find anyone to teach them...
...founded on the defanging of the beasts of twentieth-century evil. Consequently, the Holocaust always lurks menacingly in the background of these essays. In the introduction to the book, Himmelfarb herself calls attention to the Holocaust as a 'rebuke to historians, philosophers and literary critics who, in their zeal for one or another of the intellectual fashions of our time, belittle or demean one of the greatest tragedies of all time...
...those things where you're off. This course, I think I could have shredded it, as we say in freestyle. But when it counted, it was like an out-of-body experience." It was a sad parenthesis in the wacky competition that combines hotdogging exhibitionism with athletic zeal. American Liz McIntyre, a Dartmouth graduate, captured a silver medal by executing a Daffy Twister jump, while winner Stine Lise Hattestad of Norway performed a Cossack -- an aerial ballet split on skis, as did the men's mogul winner, Canadian Jean-Luc Brassard. Each race was introduced by a recorded rooster...
...computers, CD-ROMs and fiber- optic networks. But he was a great believer in finding the best ways to get information into the minds of readers, and as TIME explores these new media, we continually ask ourselves how Luce -- with his perfectionism, his eye for excellence and his missionary zeal -- would have done...