You may think "short time," but that was 41 years ago! Things haven't really changed that much. Today, any judge would know what an arcade game is (more so than a young person), but try explaining to a judge in his/her 60s what an NFT is, and you'll see the same confusion.
A 'muppet-ass looking bird'. Good to know scientific descriptions are following the centuries old traditional ways of imparting important bits of knowledge to the great unwashed. Good job, sir. I say, good job!
Is this really new or just new to you? I have Sennheisers that are 8 years old that have what they call "pass through" which is this transparency mode and I am pretty sure when doing the research then that Bose had this then as well.
At college in the early '80s, I don't recall ever looking at a syllabus. It was all about daily assignments, longer-term projects, and participation. The only exception being a professor who pretty much phoned in the whole course -- He spent the classroom sessions ranting about the crimes of the Reagan administration, until the Final, which he decreed would be our "critique of the books on the syllabus". After a pretty hectic marathon to produce a paper, I was relieved to find that he half-assed the grading of that as much as he had the rest of the semester. Things may have been a lot more rigorous in the '40s, but I'm skeptical that reading nine opera libretti, on top of some of the most legendary "doorstop" books in literature, would have been particularly vital to grasping Auden's course. That's the sort of thing that created the market for Cliff Notes.
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/e/What-Is-the-Difference-Between-a-Boat-Pilot-and-a-Boat-Captain
Oh wait, I did anyway.
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Things may have been a lot more rigorous in the '40s, but I'm skeptical that reading nine opera libretti, on top of some of the most legendary "doorstop" books in literature, would have been particularly vital to grasping Auden's course. That's the sort of thing that created the market for Cliff Notes.