Word: civics
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...Gates exposes the partisan nature of he canon defenders' supposedly apolitical agenda. "[C]onservative critics," he says in the Introduction, "have never hesitated to provide a political defense of what they consider the 'traditional' curriculum: The future of the republic, they argue, depends on the inculcation of proper civic virtues...
This, to put it mildly, is not an unfamiliar trope. It is almost as old as Los Angeles itself -- the other side of its perennial cultural struggle between civic boosterism and social derangement. It has been implanted in the city's self-image for at least 60 years, reflected in innumerable films, novels, detective stories, photography. It begins long before Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust, 1939, with its Ensor-like cast of pathological misfits and its painter, Tod Hackett, dreaming of his apocalyptic canvas of the burning of the city -- a vision that would be made real...
Besides playing softball and working on her thesis, Fromholz works as a member of the Student Advisory Committee of the Institute of Politics and is a co-founder of a Phillips Brooks House Civics Project Program, which directs civic education classes for inner-city junior high school students...
...done. Late last month Bosnia's ethnic leaders agreed that while the republic's external borders should remain intact, political power should be devolved to give more autonomy to the various nationalities within. That leaves the country with the task of finding a workable middle way between civic unity and ethnic division...
...while many undergraduates said they had no idea whom they support in today's primary, newly registered students said that casting a ballot was their civic duty...