Word: centredness
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Drury seems to expect that his fictional enclave will be taken as a micro cosm of the world-or, as he puts it in his frightful prose-"an easygoing, wisecracking, self-centred distillation of all the busy bright uncaring of the world." Hardly.
The early Program reflected Hoffmann's point of view. Entering sophomores were expected already to have chosen a broadly conceived "problem" that would eventually flower into a thesis topic. Course requirements for concentration were liberal on paper, even more liberal in practice, and junior tutorial centred around problem area (e.g...
POETS and critics of approved standing now function as teachers in colleges and universities throughout the land, and 'the summer writing conference' has rapidly developed into an educational phenomenon . . . There is no doubt that the stiffening mark of writing learned by rule . . . has begun to show up in...
Post-war liberals will find in Harold Rugg's awakening a nostalgic flavor. Greenwich Village, Walter Lippmann's New Republic and Sinclair Lewis were in their heyday, corsets were coming off and speakeasies coming in. Rugg discovered Isadora Duncan, the Fabian Society, John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, the "new...
The U. S. Job. Everywhere Colonel Donovan went he asked the same questions. Q. If Germany wins, what kind of Europe will come out of the war? A. A Europe dominated by Germany, with industry centred in the Reich. Q. What will this mean to the U. S.? A. Increasing...