Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eventually the media will catch on to what Harvard students know only too painfully already: that the Core is a superficial attempt to boost the Harvard ego and not the harbinger of a sincere commitment to undergraduate education. The Core's novelty will soon wear thin because it possesses the same defects as the General Education program it was designed to replace. In fact, in the five-year span from conception to birth, the Core has already managed to pass through stages startlingly reminiscent of Gen Ed's deterioration--a sort of ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny...
Before we write off the Core entirely, we must credit it with one accomplishment: focusing the attention of secondary schools across the country on the problem of undergraduate education. Rosovsky's offer to Core professors of semester leaves and course development funds--plus the ego gratification of participating in an educational "revolution"--provide Faculty a needed incentive to concern themselves with those who pay their salaries--the students...
...more serious objection is that Hill has overstated Sioux individualism, extolling "the language of the ego" and depicting the Lakota as free from all restraints. Complains Tom Simms, a non-Indian who teaches on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota: "She takes a communal, family-oriented society and turns it into an individualistic society to the point where anyone can do anything he pleases." Hill, a friend and ardent admirer of the radical individualist Ayn Rand, has been accused of projecting Rand's notions onto the Sioux. One critic headlined his review of Hanta Yo, "Ayn Rand Meets Hiawatha...
...vetoes stick; only one was overridden. Yet on many other issues, he first fought for conservative principles and then, when faced with deadlock or defeat, agreed to compromise. Recalls Willie Brown, an influential Democratic assemblyman from San Francisco: "He showed a willingness to accept collective decisions without serious ego problems. He does not measure his self-worth by whether an idea...
...thesis with him, for example, he rearranged his schedule so that I could drop off a chapter with him in the evenings, and pick it up the next morning at 9 a.m. with his comments. I felt like my crudely drawn icon had been labored on overnight by an ego-less angel liberal with light and gold-leaf...