Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea caught on. For TIME'S editors, the selection of the person or persons who rated the title became a high point of the journalistic year. For TIME'S readers, the selection became something of a challenge. For four decades, the year-end mail has brought ever-increasing numbers of reader-selected candidates. This year, as the sampling in the Letters column suggests, the variety of choice is greater than ever. Nominations have come in from all over the world. They range from Senator Robert Kennedy to Presidential Candidate Eldridge Cleaver, who is now a fugitive from justice...
...suggest cool competence I rather than passion or brilliance. They are problem solvers rather than idea brokers. They span the Republican midsection from the moderate progressives to the responsible conservatives, stopping short of ideological extremes. They are mostly affluent, some in the millionaire bracket, but they earned their money rather than inheriting it. There are no blooded patricians in the lot, just strivers who have acted out the middle-class dream. Thus, as much as any dozen individuals can, Richard Nixon's new Cabinet members mirror the qualities of their boss, of the campaign he waged, of the aspirations...
...unfortunate that a group of women whose life work is the organization and direction of education have much less an idea of what an education should offer than do many of their students. But while COWI's leaders have a clear concept of what they seek in an education, their proposals fall short of converting that concept into reality. The girls who should feel most threatened by the organization's rhetoric have little difficulty supporting its proposals; and this means that the proposals are not totally to the point...
...light of this fact, there are two simple but important economic concepts which the Committee on Houses should have taken into account. The first is the idea of social cost vs. social benefit. I would suggest that what the University's purse is losing monetarily, the University's students are more than making up for in non-monetary gains. On a pragmatic level, the bus is a) expedient and b) health-preserving. It spares the user two long walks and the likelihood in this weather of his taking sick from those walks...
...present concept of the University's purpose and the idea of a poor University are reinforcing each other in a misleading way. The idea of "poverty of he College" protects one from having to deal with other issues concerning the admissions policy. It prevents re-evaluation of the education-for-elite philosophy. This is not simply that it would be best if Harvard's percentage of each income group exactly matched the nation's. The hidden essenial issue is he purpose and meaning of a private university, and who it should therefore recruit. You know Harvard's present answer...