Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, there is a persistent Chinese belief in the power of the human mind to "move heaven and earth" is perhaps intellectually abrasive to many of us here in the West; yet it is true. You have made a contribution to the elucidation of what you call "the idea of China." However, all of us ought to bear in mind the wisdom of the Japanese professor who said that it is only when you feel you know nothing about the Japanese that you begin to know something about them. That is equally applicable to the Chinese...
...ride-which means spurring the horse into frantic action. But not too frantic. On a saddle bronc, says Mahan, "you will have to spur fore and aft. If you spur him in the belly, he'll toss you into the grandstand." On a bareback ride, the idea is to "keep your body back and roll your spurs up the horse's neck...
Separate Negro colleges could justify their continuing existence by "channeling outside money and ideas into the local Negro community," by concentrating on Negro culture, or merely by serving as "residential secondary schools" to offset poor instruction in lower grades. But all these alternatives, the authors admit, would "entail an intolerable loss of status." In effect, Riesman and Jencks urge most Negro colleges to lower their sights. For most academically untrained and unmotivated students, black or white, the best that a college can expect to do is "improve their basic skills a little," give them an idea of what middle-class...
William W. Nash, Chairman of the City Planning Department, yesterday called the new association "a wonderful idea. Students are unquestionably partners in planning, and I encourage them to take an active role...
Marijuana is more popular for several reasons. Freshmen have the impression that it is "safe," that the laws against its use are ridiculous and unenforced. There is also an idea that the Administration views pot as it does liquor. That is wrong. The University has strong rules against the use of drugs, but it hesitates to make public statements about them...