Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago [March 8, 1968], you were good enough to print an excerpt of my comments attempting to discredit the idea that disrobing a neurotic would produce anything more than a nude neurotic vis-avis rendering the inhibited less...
Measuring Up. Or are they? ROTC goes back to the 1862 Morrill Act, which required colleges built on federal land grants to offer military training. Far from promoting militarism, the whole idea was to prevent the development of an inbred, professional Army by infusing the military with liberally educated officers. Once compulsory at most state campuses (but entirely voluntary since 1960), ROTC supplied 100,000 Army officers in World War II and a steady flow of career men in peacetime...
...tingled in every polyglot branch: English and French, Irish and Italian, German and Polish, Hungarian and Japanese, black and white, Swede and Magyar, all have mouthed his name in ecstasy, flinging the wonderful sound to the blue God-given skies until the vastness of America roared." I like the idea of America roaring--America the big lion, roaring munching during its elections period. When is it that the American lion yawns...
There can be no heroes in Potemkin, in fact no real individuals. Courage here isn't a human trait, but an idea begin embodied in a class. Potemkin ends triumphantly as history itself will. The other ships of the Czar's Navy refuse to fire on their brother sailors. And as the prow of the Potemkin cuts through the water towards freedom one shares in the exultation...
...believe that the proposed system would give Harvard graduates substantial advantage in competing for jobs with graduates of other schools. Employers turn to Harvard now because of the quality of education here. Nevertheless, Harvard prematurely labels a large number of students as failures, giving a prospective employer the idea that these students are mediocre. The proposed system would stress that all Harvard graduates will make very competent lawyers. In addition, the top students here--if not most students here--will be able to compile sufficiently impressive portfolios of class work to compete at no disadvantage with top students from other...