Word: basic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPIVAK: Dr. Pusey, there seems now to be some difference of understanding among the administration, the alumni, the student, the faculty and even the public over what the basic issues are today--now--after all this thing was over with at Harvard University...
After Columbia, there was a carnival of books and magazine articles published by various publishers on your basic student unrest problem. Most of these were written by academic types, and most of them are indicative of the depths to which scholarship has plunged. These academics were anxious to publish, as they usually are; their literary agents told them there was a good thing going here and they should not miss out on it. Very few of them had any new ideas, but that mattered little. There they were, with more words in print. Along with the carnival came a book...
Calkins' main intent, then, is to make the present system more efficient, without raising questions about its basic nature. Thus, better vocational high schools because only 30% of Cleveland's graduates go to college, without asking why this is so; thus opposition to the war is fine, and he would like to see it work, but his higher priority is in not changing any basic structures, and so he recommends another mass movement to end the war (McCarthy was fun, but what did it accomplish)?; for the ghettoes he recommends black capitalism (what's wrong with a black elite...
...voice is soft--there's no southern drawl, but there is a hint of Virginia that makes Styron easy to listen to: "Had I had any basic intellectual respects for what was in that book, I would have been seized by agues and palsies and taken a three or four-year trip to Europe...
Mills also faults the Administration's approach to loophole closing as merely papering over tax-system defects that ought to be attacked through more basic changes. The Administration concedes that it has made only a "first stage" effort, to be followed by fuller reform recommendations by the Treasury this fall. Though it disappoints tax-reform idealists, the modest first stage balances the claims of opposing interests deftly enough to make it politically palatable. It also goes much further toward genuine tax reform than almost anyone had expected...