Word: topic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Says Taber: "I was surprised to find that officials who often begrudge 15 minutes to discuss current policy would happily sit back for an hour and theorize about what has gone wrong with the economy and why." Until recently, Taber notes, the average American had little familiarity with that topic. Says...
...what evolved during that time." To his own surprise, Dallek's newly published F.D.R. and American Foreign Policy, 1932-45, has sold, instead of a few volumes to scholars as might have been expected, 10,000 copies in three months. Says the author: "It's a hot topic...
Your work in humanities and social science courses will consist almost entirely of reading books, which can't be too bad, and writing papers, which can be good or bad depending on how intriguing the topic is and how constructive the comments you receive are. But in most cases your grade will be based on you performance on a three-hour final exam. In other words, many of the students who do well in these courses pull it off by doing nothing all semester and then spending the two-week Reading Period doing just that to prepare themselves...
...Education and Society: The Harvard Tradition" will be a big draw, mostly because it is a general enough topic for anyone. James Q. Wilson is widely recognized as a good performer, even by those who consider his authoritarian and bureaucratic leanings a little on the fascist side...
William Alfred, speaking on "Beckett's Waiting for Godot and After", is reportedly one of the nicest professors around, and for the English Department, this says a lot. The topic is rather interesting, too, although most people will probably re-enact the end of Godot: "Let's go. (They do not move...