Word: gradualism
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...Joyce Carol Gates asks mildly. "They seem to me remarkable works of art on the Hesse-like theme of a young man's initiation into 'another way' of reahty. They are beautifully constructed. The character of Don Juan is unforgettable. There is a novelistic momentum, rising, suspenseful action, a gradual revelation of character...
...shot solution to the problems affecting College education. He specifically spurned the "appoint a committee and study it" approach. Given the way Bok operates, probably that means he is serious about the problem and doesn't want to shelve it. He places emphasis on the corrective value of the gradual and informal evolution away from exams and towards writing papers, away from lectures and towards seminars. Yet the need for a more major dislocation remains. For one thing, all gradual trends aren't favorable to better College instruction--professors are gradually drifting out of contact with College students...
Henry Kissinger was on the wing again, with another of those exotic itineraries: Bangkok, Vientiane, Hanoi, Hong Kong and Peking. Flying with him were U.S. hopes for an imminent cease-fire in Laos, for a gradual end to the Cambodia fighting and for new assurances that the settlement in Viet Nam will stick. The sensitive mission may also help define the still-emerging triangular relationship among long-estranged and still uneasy powers: the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and China...
MOST ATTEMPTS to measure political progress in Mississippi consider only the political fortunes of black candidates, and therefore miss a significant trend: the gradual liberation of Mississippi progressives...
...suggest for the development of undergraduate education at Harvard? This is not a simple question, for it should be apparent by now that all of the aims I have described are already being pursued to some extent within the College. Hence, the task at hand involves more of a gradual change of emphasis than a basic restructuring. Yet there are many useful steps to be taken. Let me offer six examples...