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LACKING an elemental confidence in their nation's flimsy architectural foundations, Americans continue to construct buildings which will conform to their need for a tradition -buildings which, however, bear no relation to the functional sensibility required today. These buildings, consequently, fail to grab the imagination or heart of contemporary America; they remain unintegrated and distant from the world they seek to underpin...
...identity through a man and his children. But von Stade offers us a false analysis of the causes of this phenomenon. We do not all become "bright, well-educated, relatively dull housewives" out of biological necessity, but because of a society-and a University-that forces us to conform to the traditional female role...
Like God, these forces depend for their power on belief. They demand the greatest possible production and the greatest possible consumption, so the people must be eager producers and eager consumers. Largely through mass-media advertising, cultivating dissatisfactions, playing on pressures to compete and conform, the corporate state persuades people to worship discipline and hedonism simultaneously. The inevitable contradiction, intensified out of human proportions, destroys all harmony between work and play and makes lives schizophrenic and tragic...
...that, the gubernatorial stakes are unusually high in 1970. Governors will be in control as congressional districts are redrawn to conform with the 1970 census data. Thus a big Reagan win in California could translate into as many as ten more Republicans in the House of Representatives when the nation's most populous state is redistricted; a victory in fast-growing Florida is worth perhaps three congressional seats to the party incumbent in Tallahassee next year...
...change at Harvard is an unrealistic objective. I believe it would be both realistic and revolutionary to admit that no single model can be designed which would preserve the valuable diversity in the undergraduate body. If the Faculty acknowledged that all the educational programs under its auspices need not conform to one set of guiding principles, we would be well on our way to adopting the options necessary to accommodate thousands of students, each with unique educational interests. I am not so much concerned with rewriting Rules Relating to College Studies as I am encouraging the creation of an academic...