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...think we need any major changes in the teaching format," argues Michael Nesbit, vice president of the Business School Student Association. "A few marginal changes in the amount of background material we receive might be necessary, but the basic structure is sound...
...Nesbit says the case method gives professors ample opportunity to examine main points and issues while concentrating on a narrow case. "I don't really think more lecture formats are necessary," he adds...
WILD, WILD WOMEN" features the notorious lives of Lizzie Borden, Ma Barker, and Carry Nation among others. Those who dutifully did their compulsory summer reading and bought a copy of Ragtime can find a shot of Evelyn Nesbit on the stand at Harry K. Thaw's murder trial and discover what all the fuss was about. Mother's Younger Brother should have stayed in the closet. "Noble Causes" documents political activists from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Angela Davis. This is the only section where the photographs just don't do their subjects justice; of the eighteen women included...
Harry Thaw empties his pistol into the face of Architect Stanford White, the lover of Thaw's showgirl wife Evelyn Nesbit. White goes to his grave and Thaw to an insane asylum. But Doctorow has his own plans for Evelyn. Down from her red velvet swing, she drifts to the immigrant slums of New York's Lower East Side, where her social consciousness is raised by anarchist Emma Goldman. Sigmund Freud confronts the pleasure principle at Coney Island and cannot get back to Vienna fast enough...
...Stories, by E. Nesbit, Penguin; 6 vols., $1.25 each...