Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty Committee to review General Education must already realize that it has taken up an immeasurably difficult job. Its members are to look at a program that can no longer command the enthusiasm and the attention of most of the Faculty; the fires that the simple idea of educating citizens for a free society inspired in the late forties have nearly all subsided. If Gen Ed, or something like it, is to survive it must find among the Faculty a degree and quality of commitment to its purposes that is now entirely lacking...
...needlessly time-consuming, oversectioned, tedious courses; to many undergraduates a confusing and haphazard attempt to impose stray bits of knowledge. Luckily there are many exceptions, some of them beautiful: for example Wald's decision, or Beer's devices for having his section-men educate each other, or undergraduate enthusiasm for a new course such as Humanities 8. Yet still, few outside the program could be called devoted...
...pointed out that the Alliance's chief trouble is that it comes late, during the dying-down of Latin American idealogical enthusiasm for development. The Latin intelligentsia, he related, began to lose faith in development as a "Sorelian myth" when the high rate of growth 1950-55 slowed, and when it became clear that even increase in national income had caused no profound social change...
...years ago, West Coast beatniks and other intellectually unemployed seized upon Buddhism with all the enthusiasm some earlier orientalists had shown for mah-jongg. Their brief flings were mainly with the Zen sect, which concentrates on self-examination and is the most intellectual of the major Buddhist sects. But most Buddhists in the U.S., like Buddhists in Japan, belong to the Jodo Shinshu sect, which teaches that the Buddhist goal of cosmic enlightenment can be reached through faith in Amida Buddha, the Enlightened One of Infinite Life and Light. Of approximately 100,000 U.S. Buddhists, probably 80,000 are Shinshu...
Judging from the enthusiasm of the thousands who poured into the Salon de 1'Auto, Europe's carmakers had hit the right note. So long as the economies of the Common Market nations continued to prosper, Europe's man in the street seemed only too ready to do the Detroit twist...