Playbill
December, 1987
Cultural Literacy is a phrase that's been making the rounds of our least favorite cocktail parties recently. It was bad enough when hosts used to pull out a game of Trivial Pursuit. Now along comes a professor--E. D. Hirsch, Jr.--who insists that unless you can identify the 4500 academic buzz words, facts and phrases central to Western civilization as we know it, you may as well work the rest of your life in a gas station.The way we figure: You could go back to college and pick up a few more key...
