Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what seems to be a vintage year. Most notably, John Osborne has opened a play called Inadmissible Evidence which is at least as good as Look Back in Anger. Where once he brayed over the cardboard shoulders of Jimmy Porter at a generalized, unconscionable society, he now concentrates his focus on an individual, mercilessly sketching his moral deterioration...
Here also are samplings of the Freshman Register, a mire of errata and out of focus pictures; the HSA Calendar, (a moribund collage of ads for itself, and a rather fair approximation of the "Complete Listings" featuring a good sprinkling of those inevitable Endocrinology Colloquiums); and the Advocate (replete with unintelligible, but vaguely suggestive, woodcuts, some poems of the same order, and a short story entitled "Filth"). As if all this were not enough, the Lampoon once again treats Cambridge to her perennial Merino, still shaggy, still standing there...
Secondly, there are sound reasons to doubt the efficacy of any institutional remedy for the problem of over-emphasis on academic values. For if Riesman's analysis is correct origins of the focus on academia are to be found in a basic transformation of American culture. Tampering with admissions or with the House dining halls would have little effect on so fundamental a process...
...follow through completely, to reject acceptance by whites. As one student observed "to go along with Malcolm is to give up your dreams of getting into the mainstream of American life." But though few embrace black nationalism as a doctrine, many accept it as a useful concept, an intellectual focus for their feelings...
...follow through completely, to reject acceptance by whites. As one student observed "to go along with Malcolm is to give up your dreams of getting into the mainstream of American life." But though few embrace black nationalism as a doctrine, many accept it as a useful concept, an intellectual focus for their feelings...