Word: leonard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think the campaign had much to do with it, or how the Kennedy School was perceived during the campaign," says Baker Professor of Public Management Herman "Dutch" Leonard, who chaired the review's coordinating committee. "It was just time for the school to sit back and ask ourselves what the mission of the school was and if our curriculum was doing that...
...Kennedy School curriculum should teach student of government how to think systematically about ethical questions involved in agenda-setting and governance, Leonard says...
Mostly the fine ensemble of young actors who are members of the film's eponymous secret society (notably Robert Sean Leonard and Ethan Hawke) grope with energetic sobriety toward an idea that Keating keeps putting to them every way he can. It is this: the business of education is not to gather facts but to find a ruling passion, something around which you can organize your life. This is a point that seems to elude most kids nowadays, probably because it is one that their popular culture rarely troubles to make to them...
Certainly it never does so as fairly as this picture does. Encouraged by his mentor, Leonard's character defies parental and school authority to reach out for his dream (he wants to be an actor, not the doctor his father insists he must become) and finds that it is beyond his emotional grasp. Though director Weir, who is good at unspoken menace (Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave), has created a subtly dark and claustrophobic atmosphere, the final tragedy is nonetheless somewhat implausible...
MAKEUP: Charlotte J. Quiggle (Chief); Eugene F. Coyle (Deputy); Leonard Schulman, Carrie Ross Welch (International...