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...Center's impact on the study of American history outside Harvard will be largely through its publications--Perspectives in American History, the John Harvard Library, and a revision of The Harvard Guide to American History...
These occasional affairs are incidental to the really important--but delayed and indirect--impact the Center hopes to have on Harvard. Any improvement in the higher levels of historical research, such as the Warren Center is now sponsoring, will inevitably filter down to affect undergraduate studies. Handlin points out, however, that the Center is now making a more deliberate effort to improve the quality of teaching in the field of American history--improving the working conditions of junior faculty members--to make Harvard attractive to young historians...
...number of ways including the awarding of Harvard Faculty Research Fellowships, grants which free faculty members from full-time work in the history department. However, only one of this year's three appointments went to a junior faculty member, Dr. Neil Harris. The grant allows Harris, who taught "The Impact of Technology on America" last spring, to spend only half his time teaching and the other half doing his own reading and research (on "crowds and the nature of safety" in the last half of the nineteenth century...
...choreography any longer an artistic handmaiden, subservient to the greater demands of score. In a reversal of precedence, music is now only one of many elements that contribute to the impact of dance, which is a matter of sight and sound as well as movement. In effect, the choreographer has become the Jack-of-all-arts-the direc tor of a new theatrical form that has a total design for total involvement...
...Gambol. Unlike Balanchine, who drills his girls until they look like so many identical windup dolls, Joffrey encourages his dancers to express their own personalities. Feathery Lisa Bradley, 20, is a fragilely beautiful study in symmetry; fiery Luis Fuente, 20, is built like a blockbuster and has the same impact; sinuous Trinette Singleton, 19, dances like a sensuous nymph out for a gambol; and then there is airborne Robert Blankshine, 19, who has mastered the neat little trick of sailing into the wings as he kicks the back of his head. They all help give the Joffrey Ballet its hallmark...