Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rage and aggression and reptilian brain. Viet Nam changed American notions about the virtues of masculinity and femininity. In the '60s, during the great violence of the war, masculine power came to be subtly discredited in many circles as oafish and destructive. The heritage of the Enlightenment (the scientific method, progress, that dreamy Jeffersonian clarity of mind that told us all problems could be solved) now seemed drawn into a darker business. D.H. Lawrence once wrote that the essential American soul was "hard, stoic, isolate, and a killer...
...more high school students going on to college than ever before from 6 percent in 1950 to about 25 percent today (excluding community colleges). While he says colleges should have a strong commitment to the humanities, he predicts, "We're going to have a real problem using the traditional method on everybody...
...boss's campaign to give $14 million to the contras, only a week after said boss has called the contras "our brothers" and "the moral equal of our Founding Fathers." But it's not the impolitic thing to say if one is using the time-honored leak method to away the course of the boss's policy...
...release of the letter, dated April 2, comes during a week filled with protests calling on Harvard to divest of stock in companies with South African operations. The University has long held that complete divestment is ineffective as a method to fight South African's legal segregation of its Black majority population...
...Rights Ordinances. However, people connected with parts of Harvard such as the New England Deposit Library (in Allston) or the New England Regional Primate Research Center (in Southboro) are not. A non-discrimination cause would not only protect these Harvard affiliates, but would also provide an alternate (and internal) method of filing and redressing complaints to going through city procedures...