Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course grew out of another course, "Critiques of American Society," organized by a group of Harvard undergraduates under the auspices of Noam Chomsky in the spring of 1968. Students from the "Critiques" course, joined by other undergraduates, graduate students, some students from other schools and a former student, and Assistant Professor Thomas Cottle planned the essentials of Soc Rel 148 during the summer...
Intensive discussions were held as to the content of the course, how it would be run, and what the goals of the course would be. The group held meetings which were intended to be "samples" of typical section meetings; the group discussed and criticized them to determine the flows of discussion that might take place...
...Each section will begin with two speakers followed by a series of section meetings. The speakers will raise important issues, and the sections will discover that it disagrees with certain ideas, is uncertain about others, and is in confusion about yet others. At the end of each section, the group will refer to the reading lists and select a unit of readings to clarify the dispute and motivate further discussion. The class will do the readings and then return to the seminar to re-evaluate the old discussion and push it further into new areas and problems...
Every Friday, for two hours, the section man will meet with Professor Cottle to discuss the class in terms of substance, administration, and teaching. These meetings will help section men bring all the resources of the group to bear upon intellectual or teaching problems as they arise. Such problems will be discussed and evaluated, and the combined experience of the group should go far in aiding the solution of problems, in revising techniques which were used, and heightening the sensitivity of the section men to their causes...
...Executive did have an arm responsible for keeping track of peace probes. It operated under the direction of Averill Harriman, but as the War progressed, it gradually withered into a front toward which Johnson could gesture when his desire for peace was questioned. The story of Harriman's group as told by Kraslow and Loory illustrates one rule of executive decision-making: when an executive organization is not nourished by presidential concern it wilts. Harriman had neither the President's ear nor a security clearance which would have permitted him to do his job. Harriman did not even know...