Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Garnering facts from worn-out administrators would not, of course, be the only facet of the Institute's program, as Neustadt has sketched it. A core of scholars from Boston's universities would be brought to the Institute to meet with resident and visiting "fellows." There would, presumably, be seminar discussions of political issues, books written by senior public officials, and sets of memoirs produced by collaboration between an experienced politician and a younger...
Across the U.S., college students faced exams or major papers before the spring-vacation break. And, as one Harvard man pointed out, "the more work a guy has, the harder he finds it to keep his hands off the dial." It puts a strain on the hard-core television watchers, the guys with "the habit," because t uninitiates are surging in for a tension break and the seats in front of private and public, are at more i premium...
...wouldn't come over for our date until Combat was over." But when they do watch (in curlers and bathrobes that neatly match the underwear and sweatshirts being worn across the way in the frats), they watch Dr. Kildare and that "cute" David Janssen on Fuge. Vassar hard-core viewers categorically refuse to bring outsiders up to date on Peyton Place. And at most women's colleges, a few devotees check every lunch hour for the soap operas, no doubt preparing for life as a housewife...
...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. "industrial societies") rather than methodological or disciplinary themes. To give all the students a common core of knowledge, however, the Committee on Social studies provided a sophomore tutorial covering the "writings of leading social scientists of the past" and "the problems of method common to the social sciences...
Asbell spends most of his pages talking about the educational deficiencies that keep us from taking full advantage of automation. He discusses illiteracy, hard-core poverty, and the rural areas and Negro ghettoes that breed the unemployable. A man who mines coal all day does not, reports Asbell, come out "an adventure-minded man. Most of his intellectual powers must go toward the discipline of accepting his dull, dank existence without questioning, without wondering, without upsetting the influence of ambition. To live, one's ambition must die." The "wretched tasks" and discrimination of the "pre-automation" age are, according...