Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mean by this that in order to achieve any goal, however modest, one must qualify. Qualifying means: having been trained, passed a course, obtained a certificate. . . The young in college were born into this system which in this country is not much older than they, and they feel, quite rightly, intense claustrophobia. They have been in the groove since the sandbox...
Does Barzun really mean to say that the young have no models? The statement reveals a proclivity to exaggeration that is the working method of the book. One cannot deduce the crises which Mr. Barzun deplores from a set of statistics. Attitudes are his material, and he often trusts his luck to pick out the signs of the times on campus. The footnotes he supplies are more in the nature of anecdotes, while an impressive bibliography refers readers to more factual (and timid) efforts...
...other faculty members, for a pragmatic (does that mean practical or officious) exercise in the use of logical fallacies at the Faculty Meeting of 4 February. How grand it was to witness a pedagogical display of the honorable non sequitur, the venerable syllogism (in the sense of "a subtle, specious, or crafty argument"), the abundance of ad hominems and post hoc, ergo propter hoc's. "Eloquent" was the evaluation made by one speaker for the pedants who preceded him. No wonder Professor Beer trembles twice for his colleagues. Many, many thanks for an enlightening exposure to "academic freedom...
...delighted local crowds by saying that his administration would never stoop to cutting off the Federal aid. But when the national press picked up the story, a flood of protest rolled down from the North. Back in New York three days later, Nixon recanted, saying that he didn't mean to "imply that we would not use all the available tools to guarantee equal education...
...dismay of civil rights forces. The liberal Atlanta Journal called the move "a costly Nixon retreat" that "slaps the face of every Southern school board . . . that has moved with great difficulty to obey the law." Six liberal Republicans in the Senate said that they hoped the decision didn't mean that Finch would flag on enforcement, and Senate Democrats threatened committee action if desegregation plans were left...