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...Berkeley and Brown attempt to achieve depth in an almost limitless field by dividing their programs into three branches of study...
About 40 people graduate each year from Berkeley's environmental studies program, which has been in existence since 1972. Students choose to study in one of three fields--physical, biological or social--until their senior year, when they work together as teams on local environmental projects...
Amid all the cheers, a few small doubts have been raised. "It's hard not to see in Lincoln Center's bicentennial gourmandizing a musical Trump Tower," Berkeley musicologist Richard Taruskin complained in the New York Times. The Economist was concerned that "the world will be in grave danger of suffering from surfeit." "Mozart will be everywhere," sighed the French weekly L'Express, "on posters, the radio, the front page . . . not to mention Viennese confections and chocolate Mozarts. Mozart wrote, 'I would like to have all that is good, true and beautiful.' Well, so he will and, alas, all that...
...very momentousness of its subject, however, is the biggest hurdle facing the six-hour PBS series Making Sense of the Sixties. So many pieces of the story have been told so often, in documentaries from Eyes on the Prize to Berkeley in the '60s, that a curtain of boredom threatens to fall even before the stage is set. Much of the material is distressingly familiar: the expected film clips (Martin Luther King, Woodstock, the Democrats at war in Chicago) annotated with the expected cliches ("The age of heroes was over...
...University of California at Berkeley, a hot-bed of protest during the Vietnam War, there has been no organized student action because the school is not back in session, said Cedric O, Pleston, managing editor of The Daily California...