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...that 15% to 25% of collegians engage regularly in some form of public service. Many campus volunteer agencies are finding that interest is higher than it has been since the early '70s. Declares Stanford University President Donald Kennedy: "Everybody's view of this generation was that they were careerist, that they were yuppies inthe making. I always thought that...
...Julie Andrews' strongest performances. Fighting the disease and its accompanying despair, stoking her own infidelity and her husband's, displaying the terminal patient's luxury of being both noble and bitter, Andrews transforms Tom Kempinski's case history into a metaphor for middle age. Stephanie could be any careerist facing a mid-life crisis of confidence -- Is she at her peak or past it? -- or the cripple any woman feels herself to be when her man goes randying after younger bodies and more pliant hearts. Andrews doesn't tear a passion to tatters; she uses it to stitch a coherent...
According to a major new study, conducted by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and released this week, such careerist replies reflect the views of 90% of U.S. high school students and 88% of parents on the prime purpose of a college education. Only 28% of parents and 27% of high school students see college as a place to become a more thoughtful citizen. Nor were faculty more sanguine. "My students," commented a professor, "have no idea what scholarship in my department is all about...
Adam Cohen, current president of the Harvard Law Review and a 1984 magna cum laude at Harvard, came because "there's so much here." Cohen comments, however, that the students tend to be a "very careerist group with a bloodthirsty desire to get ahead." Bok agrees, not happily. He reports that the stated goals on the applications of incoming freshmen were "money first, followed by power and then making a reputation." Once new students are safely aboard, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett notes that they acquire a certain "smugness" and "arrogance" -- as witness a cheer that goes...
...largest function of all these people is to provide a bustling background for Ripley's quieter, more intense development. In the first film she was a smart, self-contained careerist, essentially a reactive character, desperately fighting against something but not for anybody or anything except her own life. The sequel gives her something, someone wonderful to fight...