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...much time labeling all the previous eras and millennium of the world. Even the fact that we have names for all of these periods is disconcerting. Mesozoic, Cretaceous, Paleozoic, Cambrian. Who can name these periods except for kindergarteners who spend too much time hugging stuffed dinosaurs and trading erasers shaped like pre-historical animals...
In the new crop of nostalgia shows, by contrast, a particular period is re- created precisely and dwelt on lovingly. In a sense, these shows are about the past -- a past, moreover, that most viewers personally remember (or, thanks to the media, think they remember). And though none of these...
Rudenstine opened the celebration, which marks the centennial of the University's appointment of its first professor of pedagogy, by remarking on the "different eras of education" that he observed as he was growing up. He used a short motto to summarize the philosophies of each of these eras.
But the final question is this: Is the simple life just a passing fancy, a stylish flashback of the 1960s? Not so, say people who have studied both eras. Contends Berkeley sociologist Robert Bellah: "It's no longer messianic, the way it was in the '60s, but relatively pragmatic. That...
If the reader can rise above Cantor's straying logic and prose, they will notice the intricate cultural detail he uses to make these points. His prosaic touches add some realistic flavor to the book and give one a sense of what our generation lacks in comparison to past eras...