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Ethics & Alienation. At Dobbs Ferry High School, 20 miles up the Hudson from Manhattan, ninth-graders spend each morning in a year-long humanities sequence that starts with the contemporary world, then shifts back to primitive man, progresses through classical cultures, medieval times, the Renaissance, and returns to today. One...
Up to this point, Antonioni has made fascinating scenes but very little sense. Then all at once, in a brilliant episode of cinematic exposition, the photographer simultaneously develops his film and his dilemma. As shot after shot is blown up, both the photographer and the audience perceive without a word...
What is newest and most exciting to both students and teachers in the program are five middle-level courses with imposing names like "Exposition and Historical Inquiry" and "Exposition and Scientific Methods." Of the 250 enrolled in these half-year seminars, 80 per cent are super-literate freshmen who pulled...
A few, like Andrew T. Weil '64, former editor of the Harvard Review, who will teach "Exposition and Scientific Methods" this spring, remain convinced that "almost all Harvard undergraduate writing is bad" and will continue to emphasize basic stylistic virtues. More often, though, the middle group courses start by assuming...
Novelist Carter Wilson's section, "Exposition and Narration" floats in what one Cliffie member calls an "atmosphere of creativeness." This week's two-hour meeting was spent on short stories by Borges, and Eliot, Berkeley, Joyce, Faulkner and Brecht all managed to creep into the discussion.