Word: idea
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Katherine Ward '07, of Arlington, Mass., said yesterday, "I've talked to a couple of people who say they won't give another cent." Mrs. Ward added that Radcliffe had struggled to gain its own identity over the years. "I just don't like the idea of its becoming the tail of a Harvard dog," she said...
Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, said yesterday that neither she nor the Alumnae office had received much response to the merger. She speculated that the alumnae had accepted the idea as the general, national tendency. "So that's that, I hope." she concluded
...ideas in this book set Moynihan off from the "mainstream" of American liberal thought on racial matters. The first idea is that the situation of American blacks is largely similar to that of other ethnic groups which have assimilated successfully into the majority culture. One senses in this book a tone of moral disapproval towards blacks who haven't acquired the civility of the rising Irish: if the poor of today could only become as self-respecting and self-reliant as the Irish were in their day, the "racial" problem would solve itself...
...second idea which sets Moynihan apart from more conventional liberals is his concern with the "silent majority" of Americans who are worried about violence and disorder. Borrowing from Emile Durkheim, and more particularly from the conservative American sociologist Robert A. Nisbet, Moynihan argues that the central problem of modern civilization is to overcome the atomization of society into disoriented individuals through the conscious strengthening of groups and group norms. This effort--Nisbet's "quest for community"--is in Moynihan's view the origin of lower middle-class "reaction' to lower-class violence, which is seen as disorienting, destabilizing, and therefore...
Vagts said the law faculty had been surprised by the quantity of student interest in the new program. The idea for the program came from an agenda suggested to the Committee on the Relation of the Law School and the University by Derek C. Bok, dean of the Faculty of Law, Vagts said. Vagts said he consulted with a student subcommittee in preparing the plan...