Word: approachement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown tried to make this point in his final remarks when he attacked the participants for lacking passion in their approach to the problems of youth and the plight of blacks. Brown was not implying that passion should supplant reason in the discussion, which Arthur Schlesinger Jr. accused him of saying. He seemed rather to sense that talk of the previous days had gone to the other extreme, that the syle of reasoned discussion had detached the conference too much from the reality of the social crisis occurring outside of the sedate, columned Whig Hall, and indeed, outside of Princeton...
...style of reasoned discussion, as employed during the conference, meant more than just the application of analysis to social problems. It meant an approach to ideas, and specifically ideas as solutions to social problems. Intellectuals, of course, are idea-smiths by definition. Their livelihood and self-confidence depend on their ability to apply reason to problems. But in many ways, the ego-in-volvement of the participants was all too apparent at the conference. There were few questions asked and many speeches made. Lines of argument were rarely followed up. The participants sat while one would-be lecturer after another...
...night," Harvard has become, through three centuries of educational experience, the model for almost every other institution of higher learning in this nation and abroad. But it is not age alone that has made Harvard so respected and influential but, more importantly, the fact that, in her approach and in her solution to so many problems, Harvard has invariably done the right and reasonable thing. In her continual striving for "Veritas," she has acted neither from haste or from pressure, but only after full knowledge and profound consideration...
...ambitious $30 million fund-raising campaign that is now stretching its tentacles out to Radcliffe alumnae is at least half-right in its approach. Half of the $30 million will go to bolster the college's endowment, and the income from that half will help Radcliffe absorb part of the rising cost of educating its students without pricing itself into a millionaires-only market. The composition of Radcliffe's student body--who come from families with a median income of $30,000 and an average income of $60,000--suggests the urgency of building the endowment and boosting scholarship funds...
THUS DOES Cooke approach his topics: with sketches, vivid description, and not a little humor below the surface. It is somehow appropriate that a chat about a Californian living in the midst of swimming pools, sprinkler systems, and ultra-modern cigarette lighters should conclude with a picture of this "professional Californian"--perhaps the precursor of a new civilization--sitting in his living room with a .22 rifle ready to blast into eternity the next squirrel that tries to munch from his laboriously-fostered grass lawn...