Word: groupism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another important aspect of the plan is its firm emphasis on group practice. Ten years ago, a subcommittee of the AMA denounced the trend towards creeping groupism as a danger as great as "socialized medicine." But the group mode has won reputability since then; and more important, it has shown in practice that it is far more efficient than single-doctor treatment...
...cool it, to wait and see if the University would come around to their position on the creation of an Afro-American studies program. But despite the tensions, it was a black question and they kept it to themselves. The black community is only the most extreme example of groupism which almost everyone at Harvard experiences...
...GROUPISM is physical too. It's appropriate that Harvard has no student center. Everyone has a physical niche. Mine is at 14 Plympton St.; if things or I had been different, it could have been at the pinball machine in Tommy's, in the stacks of Widener, in the IAB pool, in the house dining hall long after the trays have been cleared, or making movies in Carpenter Center, or watching them at the Brattle. Every January and every May we all creep out of our niches and pile book upon book onto our outstretched mind and carry the whole...
Persons who have not given in to "in-groupism," such as visiting foreigners and children, retain a sense of intellectual curiosity, Moise said. He cited Karl Marx, "who was never truly a member of any society," and the Jews, who have continually been shuttled from country to country, as illustrations of his point that intellectualism is more natural to those whom situations are not stratified...