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...several respects. First of all, the idea of purely voluntary citizenship is highly unrealistic in this country. In an individualistic, free-market society like ours, where most of one's energies are devoted to personal advancement or economic survival, there is very little room for the exercise of civic virtue, especially among the economically disadvantaged, and a general cultivation of citizenship has dim prospects. Our nation is instead plagued by voter apathy, widespread self-centredness, and alienation from a distant and bureaucratic federal government. In this atmosphere, a few voluntary exercises in civic virtue would do little to change general...
...doubt whether a federally-funded incentive program would inspire much of a change. Such a program would probably be handicapped by limited resources and faced with economic competition from other sectors. The use of economic incentives would attract only the less-advantaged and again not provide for the common civic effort that would undermine the psychological bases for bigotry, sexism and class divisions. Incidentally, I find it puzzling that the editors who argue that citizenship should be motivated by altruism would advocate economic incentives for its exercise...
...Harvard hockey team sees a suspicious old man lingering around the Providence Civic Center--site of the 1986 Final Four--next March, it better be careful. Harvard's NCAA Team Champions Year Sport Site 1898 (spring) Golf (unknown) 1899 Golf (unknown) 1901 Golf Atlantic City 1902 (fall) Golf Morris County 1903 Golf Garden City 1904 Golf Myopia...
After being eliminated in the NCAA quarters in Duluth last season, the Crimson will concentrate this year on earning a ticket to Providence, R.I., where the Civic Center will play host to the 1986 NCAA Division I Final Four...
With that in mind, 33 U.S. corporate, civic and university leaders joined 21 editors, correspondents and executives from Time Inc. for a 17-day tour of China, Viet Nam, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Hong Kong. Time planned the expedition in the spirit of its nine previous Newstours: to give each of its guests a journalist's-eye view of a vital part of the world. Since the first Newstour in 1963, Time groups have been to 37 countries, but never the People's Republic of China. This initial visit occurred at a propitious time: China has introduced...