Word: academia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More recently, a growing number of Harvard professors have begun to voice their concern about the direction the Institute may take. Conceived of as a link between the worlds of politics and academia, the Institute is now being attacked for blurring the line between the two worlds...
...Institute of Politics was conceived to bring the worlds of politics and academia closer together. iWth the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, it was intended to create a "living memorial" to the late president...
...Essay on Pop-Psych [Oct. 7] bristles with thinly veiled snobbery. "Pop-psych" is one of the few esoteric studies that have ever reached "the mass" intact; the popularity of pop-psych indicates a widespread concern among human beings. The very fact that psychology has some relevance outside of academia seems to make it untouchable in the eyes of your essayist; but at least he kept it at exactly two pages...
...opportunity to learn the subtle ways of Catholicism's capital and to study under some of the church's best minds: English Jesuit Frederick Copleston, a distinguished historian of philosophy, or German Redemptorist Bernard Haring, generally considered Catholicism's top moral theologian, who teaches at the Academia Alfonsiana (a branch of the Lateran). Otherwise, the training is not much better-and in some ways worse -than what they would receive back home. While U.S. seminaries have all but abandoned Latin for lectures and brought their curriculums closer to those of secular liberal-arts colleges, the courses...
...feel the need for student theatre and student experimentation in the Cambridge area does not end with the coming of warm weather. And we feel that some of the things Tom and I have been doing this year can be explored in greater depth without the immediate pressures of academia hanging over our heads...