Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American Dream seems especially dated. It's the story of what is supposed to be a parody of an ideal American couple, circa 1960. Mommy (Holly Cate) spends her days shopping or meeting with her women's auxilliary club, while Daddy (Donal Logue) spends his reading the paper in his easy chair. Mommy wears a bright pink party dress, the kind that domestic ex-prom queens like June Cleaver and Donna Reed wore on TV sitcoms in the 1950s and early 1960s. In fact, TV-sitcom theme songs play in the background to drive home the point of Mommy...
...most fundamental maxim is that ideas cannot be divorced from experience. Consequently, his book comes cloaked as an autobiography. As he ambles through the events of his life, Peters collects simple lessons and weaves them into a political creed. From his childhood in Charleston, W. Va., he developed an ideal of community values based on a willingness to share society's burdens. From his Army service, he picked up a lasting disdain for class distinctions. And a stint as a Peace Corps administrator left him with a sharp eye for the foibles of Government bureaucracies...
What is deficient at Harvard is not the ideal but the implementation. Core courses are too large, while teaching often falls to graduate students largely ignorant of the Core's larger goals. As facts take the place of method, the ghost of Henry Adams snickers...
...Core thus needs to be rethought and further steeped in its own ideals. The faculty desperately needs to be enlarged so that more, smaller courses can be offered and undergraduates can be liberated from the menace of inept graduate students who have the potential to ruin otherwise fine courses fine courses and undermine even the most ideal curriculum...
...shantytown built in the Yard two springs ago was a 16-foot-high ivory tower symbolizing the attitude of the ruling University elite towards students and society. The town itself was named the "Open University" to stand, in the words of one of its builders, "as an ideal toward which Harvard should strive." "Democracy--at Harvard and South Africa," he wrote in The Crimson at the time, "is at the core of the divestment struggle...