Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Social Sciences encourage the development of a "world view." The organization of facts into comprehensive schematic philosophies is stressed. In the sciences, generalizations are the jumping off point for specific research and scientists tend to be more skeptical of radical demands or rhetoric which is not accompanied by an appendix of facts...
...Wilson Report on "The University and the City" includes CLAO in an appendix on "Harvard's efforts in urban affairs," although the report does state that CLAO is a project under the law school faculty...
Kahn, above all, wants to determine for his liberal satisfaction what "went wrong" at Columbia in the spring of 1968. His effort in that respect rarely transcends his fascination with Mark Rudd. The closest Kahn comes to discovering the underlying causes of the crisis at Columbia is in the appendix, where he presents without commentary a chronology of politically relevant events since 1754 that have influenced Columbia...
...First Street School eventually closed down, because Dennison and his colleagues could not sustain their interest in it. He takes his lesson from that too. The Appendix of the book includes extensive advice on how to establish and run a school like First Street. Dennison prefaces this advice with the following statement in the last chapter...
...have known for a long time that we have lost not only the battle for the moon but the economic race as a whole; that the productivity of labor is insignificant here; that our country is turning into a raw-material-supply appendix of Europe; and that we hold out only because of our fabulous natural resources and the traditional patience of the peasants. Everyone knows that no one wants to do real work here but just shows off before his chief, that such artificial events as jubilees and anniversaries have become more important for us than real events...