Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jencks. They applaud the American graduate school, which creates these academic professionals, as "the envy of the world." But they also complain that the graduate school smothers much-needed diversity in education, often fails to link learning and life, and continually belittles its teaching duties...
...emphasizing the practical, Harrington makes concessions that neither the Old Left of idealistic socialism nor the New Left of angry anarchism is likely to applaud. But he is dealing with only the next 20 years of American life, and, he observes accurately, it is not realistic "to expect that the American people will decide to transform capitalism during that period." To get something done, one must "locate a radical program midway between immediate feasibility and ultimate Utopia." He has little patience with calls for instant destruction of the existing order: "A hazy apocalypse is no substitute for an inadequate liberalism...
...America is not in trouble," he declared. "I suggest that many present critics some day will applaud our stand in Southeast Asia...
...taught the university administration two lessons: 1) some of the changes that they want are really improvements, and 2) the way to deal with student power is to anticipate it, to initiate changes before the students demand them. Administrators who have permitted students to participate in some policy areas applaud the results, say that it prevents protest and often raises standards. Students should be permitted to voice their opinions on dormitory rules, on the performance of professors, and on what courses should be added or dropped...
...sanctity of my office, I leafed through the Giap cover story while eating lunch. On the first page of your color spread covering the embassy attack my eating came to an abrupt end. No one, certainly, would applaud your printing of such photos, but maybe such gruesome sights are what we need to be brought back to the grim reality that the news on TV is not just reruns of Combat, where the guy killed this week will return to co-star next...