Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reagan is much more popular than Ford in the rank and file, but you can't win the election in that area. Declared Republicans make up only 17% to 19% of the electorate." The remark about Reagan's popularity was a startling admission from a member of the Ford inner circle...
Separated State. This he does very badly, passionately pointing out that the reason he must have her is so he can turn his unceasing inner monologue about their situation into a dia logue. She replies - accurately - that his problem has always been that he can only see her as an extension of himself. Shortly thereafter he is trying to enlist her lover to plead his cause. After which he nearly beats her to death. After which he is discovered in jail, still fantasizing reconciliation...
With the "new mood" on campus, though, successful navigation through pre-professional waters seems more to require those traits The Lonely Crowd assigned to the inner-direction of the 19th century: goal and achievement orientation; the urge to outdistance, at all costs, one's competitors; the need always to establish for one's self an isolated and recognizable claim on a new piece of territory...
Even if one grants that a cadre of inner-directed souls--something akin to the innovator class that Joseph Schumpeter said is the driving force behind social and economic progress--is necessary in every profession, something is wrong with a process that is fundamentally geared toward inner direction. An educational system in which the very ground rules act as a powerful deterrent to the other-directed individuals whose interests and motivations are rooted in providing care to the entire population obviously begs for re-examination and re-structuring. All this is one more piece of evidence pointing to an obvious...
...meantime, besides imposing inner-directed orientations on those who climb aboard the pre-professional train, this structure will continue to drive countless Bills over the fine line it draws between unreality and insanity. The new mood on campus and the pre-professional crunch are symptoms of a malady much wider in scope than the pre-professional education structure. But perhaps it is about time that Harvard came more to grips with the question of whether those it sends on to the professional schools are these most qualified for and concerned about providing health care and legal services to society...