Biographical essay about the Chilean poet to whom the Nobel Prize for literature was awarded in 1945. A list of her recommendations for reform and innovation in Chile's educational program. (VW)

Part of a four-article report on "Learning in Black Colleges.

Continuing education can help health practitioners move beyond the narrow confines of their specialty so that they can identify themselves with the mainstream of humanity. (SK)

Asserts that the resources available for teaching values through the humanities are unlimited and offers specific examples of suitable works. (Author/WD)

Cites the growing influence of new technologies as a major force in the rise of a cultural studies that tends to marginalize literature. Contends that reading must be distinguished from theory and that genuine acts of reading disable or disqualify the theory that may have been the motivating presupposition of the reader. (PA)

Argues that transitioning from physical education to kinesiology involved developing the kinesiological sciences such that the discipline has become dominated by a scientific outlook, thus marginalizing the humanistic features of movement. Gym classes are being weeded out of many university programs, with the claim that they must be retained and…

Argues that the healer acts as the muse of the humanities, while the humanities function as healer's creative force. Describes how the author reached the crossroads of the humanities and healing (as an English professor and a psychotherapist), and examines the work of John Keats. Shows how poetry therapists stand at the crossroads where emotion…

Asserts that by stressing the humanities' importance to individual and societal health and well-being, service learning can provide opportunities to serve arts organizations and other humanistic institutions of learning. Suggests that such experiences will better ensure the development of life-long learning habits and humanistic citizenship. (EV)

Presents case histories of late-life creativity in literature (May Sarton), painting (Marcel Duchamp), music (Leos Janacek), dance (Martha Graham), and theatre (Jessica Tandy). Offers suggestions for a course on humanistic creativity in later life. (Contains 74 references.) (SK)

Certain aspects of European art music occupy a middle ground between the two cultures described by C. P. Snow almost fifty years ago. Analogies exist not only between mathematics and the ratios underlying musical notation and intervals (i.e., the distance between pitches) but also between computer science and counterpoint (simultaneous melodies):…

More than forty-five years after the publication of C. P. Snow's essay on "The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution," the "gulf of understanding" he described between scholars in the sciences and humanities appears to have grown ever larger, with disciplinary knowledge becoming more specialized and incomprehensible to…