Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever one thinks of this situation--and there are many Old Guard educators who deplore it--the fact remains: the modern American college has gone a long way toward redefining its function by the mere process of redefining its student body. The college was yesterday what graduate school is today in the educational step-ladder: it has become what high school used to be. Students don't go to college now to become teachers or professional academics, although they may later go to grad school for this purpose. They go with all-defined but very real expectations, recognizing that...
...wrong and simplistic to think that, simply because these "modern students" are not the same kind of dedicated academics their predecessors were, they are antagonistically anti-intellectual. To be sure, they resent the emphasis on professional training, on medieval scholasticism, and on ethereal abstractions. But this does not mean they are anti-intellectual, any more than it means that the medieval scholastic is a true intellectual. Often, just the opposite is the case: we've all had times when we've felt that we've learned far more from a good bull-session than we have from a lecture...
...comedian with Chicago's Second City troupe. Not religious in a formal sense, Steinberg's comic oratory is a pop version of God-is-dead theology. Steinberg explains that he picked that title for the record because "the traditional God is becoming harder to find in modern society all the time...
...sideman with George Shearing and Stan Getz, Burton looked and acted like an earnest graduate student. He had a polished vibes approach that was based on the flowing style of the Modern Jazz Quartet's Milt Jackson, but he still felt that his musical personality was as neatly buttoned down as his collar. So he went on his own, decked himself out in the Custer buckskins, and literally let his hair down. "I felt I should get my personality across to people," he says. "All short haircuts look the same, but no two long ones...
...parents." The Governor, countered F.E.A. Executive Secretary Phil Constans, is "a charlatan." At a rally of 30,000 teachers in Orlando last August, Constans urged them to submit their resignations, which F.E.A. leaders could use if Kirk and legislators did not meet their demands, including smaller classes, more modern textbooks as well as pay hikes...