Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students, the report contained nearly 100 recommendations backed by arguments so well-reasoned that, says Dean of Women Alice Emerson, it "put the stamp of quality on undergraduate thinking." In response, Penn administrators approved such changes as allowing students to take one course a semester on a "pass or fail" basis, fashion their own individualized major and sit on curriculum committees...
...report on Independent Study was never buried, we are now told, merely resting while the Committee on Educational Policy plowed through the specifics of two other HPC proposals--pass-fail and a reduced language requirement. The investigation of Independent Study the CEP opened this week promises some revisions in a program well overdue for structural changes...
...other new novels share with Myra her/his/its preoccupation-or experimentation-with artificial sex. But unlike Myra, which is redeemed somewhat by Vidal's satirical skill, these books have the lifeless neutrality of assignments thought up by publishers' accountants and carried out by literary conscripts. They not only fail to exalt, amuse, enrage, inform, misinform or anesthetize; they also fall short of truly satisfying grubbiness...
Lichtheim's comments on German history, then, will serve as a nice demonstration of his fundamental idealism. "The basic fact about German history since the eighteenth century," we are told, "has been the failure of the Enlightenment to take root." Why did it fail to thrive? In an essay entitled "The European Civil War," we learn that "national attitudes in the three countries [France, Germany and Italy] were different, and that the difference went back to the impact of the French Revolution." This is some help, but not much, for we now want to know what factors determined the reception...
...fresh idea. It is not surprising that a great deal should be expected of it. It is almost impossible to believe that at least some of these expectations will not be disappointed. And it is certain that it will fail to provide the definitive answers to the problems of student government at Radcliffe...