Word: greers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large-caliber wisecrack, like the horse pistol, is part of America's past. As the Norman Mailer-Germaine Greer exchange indicated recently, the snub-nosed innuendo aimed below the belt is today's favored weapon. When quips were quips even a President of the United States could get them off. Remember the British diplomat who told Lincoln that "English gentlemen never black their own boots"? Lincoln looked up from buffing his own and replied, "Whose boots do you black...
...Geza Tatrallay '72, the Francis H. Burr Scholarship: Richard K. Hausler '72, the Paul Revere Frothingham Scholarship: Jerry LeClaire '72, the Palfrey Exhibition Award: Stephen Saletan '71, the Joseph Garrison Parker Prize: Roger Ferguson '73, Richard Perkins Parker Scholarship: Greg Rosenbaum '74, the Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship: Allen Curtis Greer '72, the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize: and Alan Quasha '72 and Steven Burbank 21, the Newbold Rhinelander Landon Memorial Scholarship for a Junior or Senior...
...Greer, 30, a revisionist historian and an administrator at City University of New York, studied school records, surveys and census reports dating from 1890 and concluded: "School performance seems consistently dependent upon the socioeconomic position of a pupil's family." For 70 years, public schools have failed to teach about 40% of their pupils, Greer writes, though poor children today drop out during high school rather than at the elementary level. Thus the schools still have the effect of "screening out the poor and sending them back into the cheap labor market." That market, however, has shrunk dramatically over...
...Greer correct? Other scholars find his argument thought-provoking but hardly conclusive. "Greer exposes the bankruptcy of an institution." says Marvin Lazarson of the Harvard School of Education, "but he deals with these important questions too loosely. The argument is still open." If Greer is right, however, the schools are a far more limited instrument for solving the problems of race and poverty than most people think. He concludes: "The local business, the local church and local fraternal society, followed by the factory, the union, the political machine, were agents of mobility and Americanization before the school...
...women who capture the public imagination today? Angela Davis? Germaine Greer? Shirley Chisholm? Each of them does command unusual attention, but none of them more than two long-dead ladies: Elizabeth I, Queen of England from 1558 to 1603, and Mary, Queen of Scots, her contemporary and bitter rival. Their sudden popularity is a turn of the popular psyche that befuddles the critics, but, in this day of so-called new politics, Elizabeth and Mary's Old World politics remain as fascinating as ever. Four centuries old, history's most famous catfight still reverberates passionately, and every entertainment...