Word: banfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THAT SOFT scraping one hears is the sound of 300 students sliding their "Highlighters"-pink, green, yellow-over the significant passages in Edward C. Banfield's "The Unheavenly City...
With good reason. The book will be the basis for that course's one hour exam on Friday (ominously the 13th). Students can only hope that Banfield tells the truth in his preface when he assures the reader, "I am as well-meaning-probably even as soft-hearted...
...view from behind Banfield's rose-colored glasses shows the vast majority of city dwellers in pretty good shape, with things improving rapidly...
...Banfield explained that his forth c?? book-The Unheavenly City-con?? the lectures which fornied the core ?? course when it was last given three ?? ago. Rather their duplicate reading ?? lectures, he decided to use his lecture ?? cover points not treated in the book ?? make sure that students read the ?? anyway...
...After telling the more than 500? ?? dents gathered in Lowell Lecture ?? that the exam would be graded fail ?? pass with honors, Banfield hastened ?? sure them that anyone who read th? ?? books "could not possibly fail" it ?? dictated he was not yet sure how mu??any, reading period the course would have later in the Spring...