Word: faddism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choose such a partisan nutritionist as Dr. Winick to cover the International Health Fair [Oct. 23]. Though he renders a service in exposing the faddism and snake-oil huckstering in the movement, he overlooks what will be its lasting effect: turning Americans away from the plastic "long shelf life" foods of the supermarkets back to the plain, flavorsome-and more healthful-foods of the real world...
...student movement as a whole has been less in evidence this year; but the eerie silence on the Harvard campus cannot be explained only by the forces of national faddism. The student movement here has indeed suffered because it was no longer glamorous; but it has also been smashed by clever repression and by Harvard's institutional identify, one of the strongest in America...
...point of hostility. Skeptics insist that such highly individualized scholarship needs close faculty-student rapport, and that big campuses will never be able to afford the staff to provide it. The new approach, they fear, could eliminate incentives to hard work and undercut liberal education with academic faddism...