Word: actually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themes of belittlement, isolation, and neglect ran contrapuntally through the chorus of complaint. Enering the Graduate School as an elite selected from long lists of applicants, the students seemed to feel that the actual reception meant that nobody really cared for them or their opinions. It is as if they had wandered into a society of competitive, specialized scholars who might perhaps train them to run the academic race but who refused to meet them on the ground of what is meaningful and relevant in their own lives...
...take the only logical step we could take where nobody would be offended." The two men then turned to ward each other with a look of simultaneous discovery and fondness -and kissed, smack on the lips. The ABC Department of Broadcast Standards and Practices (the censors) deleted the actual contact of the lips, but the audience knew exactly what was going to happen after the rest of the scene ran intact. Half a dozen other racial jokes were included in the one-hour show, including jabs at the N.A.A.C.P., the K.K.K. and black militant students...
...genius of de Antonio is that he realizes that we see the actual War as a sort of documentary film. The same tensions between involvement and detachment that we experience looking at a film we also experience "looking" at the war or, for that matter, any contemporary historical event...
...first year student was unable to get feedback. . . . This intensified fear of failure interfered with the student's ability to succeed. It caused the student to rely on false feedback, encouraged ineffective study, inhibited informal education available by contacts with student colleagues and professors, and most importantly, interfered with actual academic success...
Perhaps this is not entirely unfair: a government program should not be automatically considered worthwhile simply because its actual harmfulness cannot be proved. But Moynihan's insistence that government programs be able to justify themselves with hard scientific data may prove to be even less helpful than the less rigorous approach of the Office for Economic Opportunity...