Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after that to all of humanity. A Jesuit general once called patriotism "the most certain death of Christian love." There is no question that chauvinism-hyperpatriotism-can be induced in any country, including a democracy, where truth may be a poor competitor in the marketplace of ideas. A tragic example is Germany, where Nazi excesses in the name of the fatherland left such scars that today patriotism is for Germans an embarrassing idea...
Though the HPC still supports the idea of a free fifth course, their plan this year in no way hinges on it as last year's did. "Isolating the two issues was wise," Edward T. Wilcox, secretary of the CEP said last week, "because of the fiscal implications of the fifth course. We would have to make estimations of how many might take the fifth course and there would clearly be a budgetary limitation...
...idea of demanding some overall knowledge of the field is legitimate enough that generals for Honors seniors should be retained in some revised form, with less emphasis. But non-honors generals should not be continued, and the new junior generals should never be given...
...concession speech, "The world is rotten; rotten right to the middle of the core. It's really rotten." The last few hears haven't been good ones for the people who supported Louise Day Hicks; first the Establishment got the Commonwealth to overturn the Neighborhood School idea with the racial imbalance law; and last night it spoiled the victory party by getting Kevin White elected Mayor. "The Establishment--you know, the bankers and the reporters," said a lady in a frilly blue party dress, "that's what licked...
Somehow, somewhere in the course of the development of democratic or demogogic tradition in this nation the idea arose that concern with the physical beauty of the public buildings and spaces of the city was the mark of--what?--crypto deviationist antipeople monumentalism--and in any event an augury of defeat at the polls. The result has been a steady deterioration in the quality of public buildings and spaces, and with it a decline in the symbols of public unity and common purpose with which the citizen can identify, of which he can be proud, and by which...