Word: broading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through the most ephemeral of fashions. The concept of wit, the very word, today suggests a dated elegance. Gone is the vintage innocence, masquerading as chic, that Miss Dorothy Parker symbolized. Things are now laughed about that she would have found vulgar, if not downright indiscreet. Humor today is broad and black. Perhaps it is more human; it is certainly less artificial. Yet the suspicion mounts that behind the laughter of "alienation," there is a wide streak of sentimentality, too, just as there was behind the "cynicism" of Dorothy Parker...
...proposal for the coming year would allow student participation in Area (broad departmental units) meetings. And the course evaluation book will include evaluations of entire Degree programs instead of the less significant individual courses...
...subcommittee report recommends that broad interdepartmental courses be substituted for the department requirements, courses which will teach the student a method of acquiring medical knowledge and provide him with a general background of essential information. Departments would offer specialized electives to deal with specific problems in depth, the workload of requirements would be lessened, new courses would be offered, and professors would be given a chance to teach small groups...
...should withdraw immediately, or whether the President should be opposed in 1968 even if running against a hawkish Republican. On the other hand, radical leaders who will be helping to direct Vietnam Summer are said to believe that its main function is to plant the seeds for broad-based radical politics--something never before accomplished on a long-range basis in the United States...
...participants if it had a party line. In any event, the organizers may well be satisfied whether the project fails or not; either they will awaken a previously dormant popular minority against the war, or else they will radicalize the large numbers of moderate students who joined their broad-based coalition...