Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time he had first volunteered for Viet Nam, he explained to his wife that it would be a good idea to get his combat duty over with. Then, after only 22 months at a school in Fort Knox, Bill Carpenter volunteered to serve an other term. "He just felt like he should be there," recalls Toni, who lives in Monroe, N.Y., with their three children. "He liked to be with the troops...
...first theories about LSD was that it was a psychotomimetic-a mimicker of psychoses. The idea offered hope of finding a chemical cure for schizophrenia, as well as of increasing the psychiatrist's empathy with a schizophrenic by giving himself "madness in miniature" and thereby knowing what his patient was going through. Some of the LSD-induced symptoms are indeed similar to psychoses-the feeling of being outside one's body, for instance, or of coming apart. But the all-important difference is that the LSD taker almost always knows that the hallucination he is experiencing is caused...
...Oliver said, the project will be taken to other schools in Newton and to other communities if it succeeds. "We've gotten away from the idea of a pre-arranged product coming off the assembly line," he said. "From sow on we'll be assessing problems within real communities...
Either way, there is a fair chance that Oliver's idea of remaking elementary and secondary education, it "starting from the beginning," will be forgotten...
...identify one's self dramatically with an idea is not to serve it," Galbraith argued. And how should scholars promote their ideas? Many would argue that the system is unhealthy and must be circumvented. Perhaps it will be one goal of the Kennedy Institute to provide means for those scholars who want their ideas to be heard in the government. The urgency of the present student protests suggests that if academics continue to experience frustration at the hands of the government they may become a disruptive political influence -- one that feels it has no place in the society, one that...