Word: maze
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hearings last Spring were held in the penthouse of Holyoke Center behind five sets of locked doors, and at times, ten armed policemen. The dizzy and intimidated student, after maneuvering through this maze of defenses, was herded into a hearing room and confronted by a long table and the three members of his hearing panel. These panels were headed by one of three faculty members; either James Q. Wilson, Alan Heimert, or Donald Anderson. The other two members of the panel, one faculty member and one student, remained for the most part silent onlookers...
...choose between the poor and the public schools or other essential services. Moreover, the U.S. is distributing aid through an administrative system that might have been designed in a demented collaboration between Franz Kafka and Rube Goldberg. Federal, state and local regulations regularly overlap, producing a punch-card maze from which escape seems impossible. The situation is, as the President said in his State of the Union address, "a monstrous, consuming outrage...
...serious question the plan raises is whether it would do that anywhere except on Government organization charts. HEW was itself a product of Hoover-inspired accretion, but its example hardly inspires confidence; many, in fact, have proposed that it be broken down into smaller segments to make the maze more manageable...
Students have gone berserk, and the Harvard community has reacted in diverse ways, but Harvard has not changed. A maze of committees has been formed, it seems, because nobody wants to take the responsibility to change what is ancient and hallowed and sacred...
...emphasis in such general exposures to other worlds has been on the study of records of perception instead of any investigations of the worlds themselves. Consequently the student may never catch sight of the problems of the realm in question as he wanders more and less lost in the maze of great names, books and categories...