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...next step on the hierarchy, the associate professorship, is largely a cermonial one, for it carries tenure and the implicit promise of promotion to full professor. The History Department has only four associate professors, all of whom will surely become full professors within a few years. The system by which both types of appointments are made is the same, and the only distinctions are ones of prestige and of salary. Men of both ranks are guaranteed continuous employment until the age of 66, unless they demonstrate gross professional incompetence or commit flagrant moral or criminal offenses; needless to say, dismissals...
Ulich recommended that schools, although forbidden to teach any "denominational tenets,"redouble their efforts to relate to their students the "values and virtues implicit in relgion" in a historical framework. Teachers should not be paid merely to relate a "number of skills and knowledges and then leave the inner life of their charges to the chance of the environment...
This book shatters such naivete. By showing us the working pre-occupations of reporters, it startlingly reveals the pressures influencing what we read and the fragility of the foundations on which our implicit faith rests...
...minister has regained his look of permanence. A closed form in lustrous alabaster, his presence is pounded out of stone with a mallet as if hacked from timelessness by human persistence. The pose may be stiff, but the archaic smile on the ancient Egyptian's lips reflects an implicit belief that he has found a house for his soul and that his eyes gaze toward eternity. Yet without patient scholarship, he would only have added to the historic rubble of mankind...
...Implicit in the attempt to give a larger perspective is a desire to radicalize the local people. Mendeloff describes one of the meetings between the welfare mothers and city officials almost gleefully: "It was a great confrontation. Power was the issue. They were saying in effect, 'we'll give you people food if you don't ask to make decisions...