Word: basically
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...certainly miss the New England countryside. But as an experience, as a way to pass four years. Harvard is over-estimated. It is no doubt the greatest university in the world in many respects, and certainly extraordinarily efficient at grinding out hard-working professionals. But at a basic human level Harvard is sadly devoid of charm or style. Students there are mostly uptight, immature and inarticulate...
...communist party, the history of the resistance, they memorize long lists of names and dates, and finally in high school they study both Italian and European history with great thoroughness. As a result the interaction between a society and its culture is something that they have a basic instinct for. Americans, when they start to study European culture have no historical foundation at all on which to build. This is a fundamental problem which Harvard ignores almost completely. Again it is paradoxical that such a brilliant department--which makes Harvard one of the best places in the world to study...
...essence of good historical studies. As a result narrative history is simply not taught. In this case the baby has been thrown out and the bath-water kept! The understanding of history does not mean learning a bucketful of scholarly interpretations of "Feudalism" or 'Development.' It requires a basic knowledge of what happened when and where, and this can only come from a sustained study of the sources. Doubtless the latest social scientific wizardry is more exciting than biographic of popes or medieval chronicles, but without the second the first is meaningless...
Desegregation through busing, he said, evades the more basic problems of poor education, poor housing, and lack of jobs in the Boston area...
WASHINGTON--President Carter yesterday announced a halt to U.S. oil imports from Iran, declaring that this action would "eliminate any suggestion that economic pressures can weaken our stand on basic issues of principle...