Word: overviews
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...evaluation is being supervised by Vladimir Alexandrov, head tutor in the department, in conjunction with the Slavic and East European Language and Area Center. The center "wants a general overview of what is going on in our department." Alexandrov said yesterday...
...blame for the world resource crisis. As a member of the Institute of Policy Studies, he demonstrates the ability of an outsider from the federal government to present a more cogent and cohesive view of problems than spokesmen for Washington, who have kept the public in a muddle. His overview may be more pessimistic than most offered to the American public, but the weight of his examination of public policy should serve as a signal to the White House that Americans want, and are capable of developing, a more substantive solution to the problem of managing the world's resources...
...instead of admitting and striving to counter this tendency, Rosovsky conceals it with the methodological dogma that although Western civilization traces back 2500 years, only in the last 30 have academicians faced "too much information" to attempt an overview of the whole. And though the emphasis on a plurality of perspectives should be applauded, as should the Core's innovation of many team-taught courses, it is hardly novel to set the subject matter in a contextual framework. Harvard ought to stress this approach in every course--not just the revolutionary Core courses...
...could look upon Elvis Costello's vision as anything but limited. But few would look for a comprehensive overview in August Strindberg, either. Immature and oversensitive, Elvis dehumanizes to keep from being dehumanized; he gives us nothing less than the genesis of evil. What we have in the music of Elvis Costello is an extraordinarily detailed delineation of the twists and turns of a single tortured, adolescent mind. It's not us, but it's not that far removed; you may feel it next time you masturbate. In "High Fidelity," Elvis gives us, for once, a moral afterthought, a vicious...
Dowling said that his experience as a member of CUE, CHUL and the North House committee will give him a good overview of College government organizations. "But I'm going into this with no preconceived notions," he added...