Word: contently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Redbook," General Education in a Free Society, defined a "general" education as one that was "shared" (students would take the same lower level courses) and "philosophical" (the content of the courses would be concerned with the historic themes of Western civilization). But in the last nineteen years the word general as shared and philosophical has become almost meaningless; students do not have to take a core of offerings but instead have some choice, and the themes of the West are only part of a program which emphasizes methodology as much as historical content, quantitative analysis as much as an appreciation...
Liberalism also draws salvos from the "aesthetic" left, whose self-appointed leader, Norman Mailer, summed up the critique in his Presidential Papers of last year. Mailer vents his spleen more on the language than the content of liberalism. Claiming to "understand" the poor, he resents liberals who classify the underprivileged as "problems:" "These are people, not quandaries, and they're hep enough to hate the big cement housing projects that 'tolerant' progressives build so proudly." Compassionate and sincere, Humphrey may be; hep, he is not. Where Mailer calls for an artist-politician, sensitive to the people's "existential" needs, Humphrey...
...doubt that the program has been bent by these winds of change. Most importantly, the distinction between Gen Ed and departmental courses has been blurred. In the Natural Sciences, where Nat Sci 5, 9, and 10 serve as basic departmental courses, it has been obliterated. Not only is the content of Gen Ed no longer shared, but it is something of a hodgepodge--at once methodological and historical, quantitative and qualitative in emphasis...
...content to rely on secondhand reports, the Commission determined to investigate everything afresh. Earl Warren interviewed Jacqueline Kennedy in her Georgetown home and Jack Ruby in his Dallas jail (Ruby called him "Earl"). Every member of the Commission flew to Dallas one or more times, painstakingly retraced the movements that Oswald was known to have made on Nov. 22. They visited the rooming house where he lived, the theater where he was captured, the jail basement where he was shot. At the Texas School Book Depository building, each one went to the sixth-floor spot where Oswald had stood, shouldered...
Senator Goldwater's acceptance speech may well have been a "string of platitudes, empty words, and obscure philosophical meanderings," but I think that it was a mistake to dismiss the content of his speech as "hardly worth mentioning...