Word: extracurricularly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the church's role in moral upbringing "has withered," says Bronfenbrenner, the American public school concentrates on factual knowledge. "Training for action consistent with social responsibility and human dignity is at best an extracurricular activity." So American children turn to two surrogate character builders: TV-much of it violent-and their peers. Unlike the Soviet child's peer group, the American's "is relatively autonomous, cut off from the adult world. The trouble is," says Bronfenbrenner, "kids have little to teach each other." But they do intensify one another's antisocial bents, such as playing...
...idea to include Yiddish in the curriculum stems from a proposal by students who are enrolled in an extracurricular Yiddish. program sponsored by Hillel...
...changes to be considered are abolition of concentration requirements, changes in the number of courses required for the A.B. degree, and the possibility of granting credit for extracurricular work...
Oyster's Autobiography. The mosaic of individual insights and adventures never unifies into a single, coherent vision. It is as if the director, sidetracked by the individuals, grew impatient with the crowd. Much of Fellini's extracurricular career is spent deflecting exegeses of his films, but he seems genuinely anxious to have audiences compare his ancient Rome with that of the Twentieth Centurians. "Rome in its decline was quite similar to our world today," he insists. "There was the same fury of enjoying life, the same lack of moral principles and ideologies, and the same complacency. Today...
...what one calls the "we-they atmosphere?" among many faculty and students. Even if they wanted to ignore the new currents, they could not. Law students picket firms like Ropes and Gray (a prestigious Boston firm), ask firms for detailed information about their activities, and lend more time to extracurricular activities than to traditional activities like Ames competition. The Young Republicans and Young Democrats have fared better than their College counterparts, but the growing numbers of blacks and white radicals have created forces that can only emphasize the gap between faculty and students...