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...IMAGE (315 pp.)-Daniel J. Boorstin-Atheneum...
...muckrakers with a newspeak all their own. With indifferent success, these unHidden Persuaders have warned The Status Seekers and The Organization Man against the perils of The Power Elite and The Image Makers in The Self-Conscious Society. Latest to ask "Whither America?" is ex-Rhodes Scholar Daniel J. Boorstin, 48, who teaches U.S. history at the University of Chicago when he is not lecturing in Asia, the Middle East or Europe (he is now at the Sorbonne...
...Ruthless, singleminded concentration of men and treasure on a single project may lead to spectacular results (example: Sputnik). But the monolithic closed society lacks the flexibility to improvise and change its plans. "It is not prepared to go off into new, unplanned fields." says University of Chicago Historian Daniel Boorstin. "But the open society is a world where everything can be tried." Adds Bishop Gerald Kennedy, president of the Methodist Council of Bishops: "The overwhelmingly important strength of a free society is the individual-the lonely man. whether he be in a laboratory, in a church, in his home...
...blend lies in the two-year mix of the program. In his first year, the student will spend a full year of graduate work in his subject under supervision of top scholars from various divisions of the university proper. Among the teachers: Historians Daniel Boorstin and Louis Gottschalk, Physicist Samuel Allison, Mathematician Marshall Stone. In addition, students will observe high school teaching, take a wide-ranging weekly seminar in the psychology of learning and the philosophy of education. In the student's second year, the emphasis shifts to a "teaching residency in a selected high school." Unlike unpaid practice...
...were never distrusted because their function came before their social status." Even the intellectual's least controversial role, as custodian of the heritage, is taken lightly in America because, says Poet W. H. Auden, "American cul ture is committed to the future." The fact is, adds Historian Daniel Boorstin of the University of Chicago, that the U.S. has never produced intellectuals in the European sense. "A great deal of the wailing heard is derived from a European notion of the role of the intellectual. Those who attack U.S. culture are really saying: 'Why aren't we more...