Word: endeavorment
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...have been done. There is more building going on in the City of Boston at this moment than in any city in America--that's by dollar volume in relation to per square yard area and in relation to population served. The third aspect of the program was to endeavor to have the Commonwealth assume its fair share of the responsibility for the City...
...frustrating (and damning) characteristic of Schwartz's article is that he himself clearly believes every word of it. He really thinks that "it is ironic that one on who has departed from the scene [i.e., a resigned Volunteer] should presume title to the very themes of ... [the Peace Corps] endeavor," and that the "role of those Americans [who are overseas] has changed--not to a point of perfection, certainly, but to a point where perfection is a less impossible goal." This is exactly the attitude Elaine and I found in the Chilean Peace Corps Administration: an incredibly naive self-image...
...prose style of Harvard's course catalogue can make a literate student pretty drowsy. Most programs are chosen by word of mouth, and among those students who plow regularly through their catalogues, there is a tendency to dismiss whole areas of human endeavor, like Soil Mechanics and Urdu, which appear to the untrained eye irrelevant. Yet a careful reading of the catalogue brings scholastic joy to a small, notoriously uncommunicative group of undergraduates who have effected a virtual monopoly over the University's more exotic, which is to say more enjoyable, selections. Opposing monopoly, we bring this list forthwith...
...ironic that one who has departed from the scene should presume title to the very themes of this endeavor. Yet to raise these issues soundly is to discuss the soul of Peace Corps, and is the certain responsibility of each of its participants. These issues were raised before Paul Cowan's entrance on the scene and will be raised again through the life of Peace Corps. On some we have fared well, on some we have fared poorly; on all we are committed to progress, to the search for peace...
...were as inexpensive as pencil and paper. The era he predicted is rapidly arriving. Students can now make a short film for as little as $25, and a workable 16-mm. camera can be had for as little as $40. McLuhan-age educators, moreover, welcome this form of creative endeavor. Some foresee the day when film training will be an accepted and universal part of education. Says Father John Culkin, head of Fordham's Center for Communications: "Students ought to be learning the fundamentals in grade school-early high school at the latest-so that when they finally...