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...Still, for your hard-core Broadway devotees - basically old people, Manhattanites, Jews and homosexuals (I qualify in half of these categories, won't tell you which) - Tony Night possesses a cliquish glamour that the more popular TV ceremonies can't touch. It has the snazziest pace, the most articulate acceptance speeches and the most, and most tolerable, production numbers. On this year's show there were eight, one from each of the nominated new musicals and revivals, including "Wonderful Town," an Encores! concert that transferred to Broadway this season...
...This past season emphasized the familiar - familiar, at least, to its core audience of Modern Maturity musical mavens. Both "Can-Can!" and "Bye Bye Birdie" had long Broadway runs and upmarket movie adaptations; in the 90s, "Birdie" was remade for TV, with Vanessa Williams in the female lead. The revivals were spiffy as always, and better than that if Patti LuPone and Karen Ziemba (the respective stars) fit your definition of Broadway mesmerizers...
...this past fall semester, in which he only guest lectured in graduate courses, Pinker taught Science B-62, “The Human Mind” and a graduate companion course, Psychology 3500, “The Human Mind: Talking Points” this spring. With 270 students, the Core class ranked fifth-highest in enrollment among all spring semester courses...
Students did complain about the course’s heavy workload—its four one-page papers, two 10-page papers, midterm and final made it one of the most work-intensive Core courses—but they said it was not enough to dissuade them from taking the course...
...learn from each other’s successes and mistakes as long as we are sensitive to our local academic context,” he wrote. “What seems to be universal is the desire of scientists to collaborate across disciplines and the role of core facilities, computer power, and large-scale databases in the efforts of many peer institutions...