Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...title is Humanities 10, "The Modern Sensibility." Students will study each of the three men, and individual tutors will then discuss the material in the contexts of their special fields. The tutors run the gamut of fields, including Government, History, Fine Arts, and Germanic Literature...
...represented by a very long story-so long that it has been separately published as a novel. Wise Blood deals with a familiar theme: man obsessed to the point of fanaticism. The scene is the dirt-road South outside the progressive and prosperous mainstream of U.S. life. In a modern U.S. city, there is no place outside of the psychiatric ward for the hero of Wise Blood, a gaunt drifter who blinds himself the better to see God and extinguish the devil...
...Cecelia Holland writes a spare, masculine prose and applies the technique of the good U.S. western to her feudal lords. She avoids the stage-prop flummery that clutters so many historical novels, and in her dialogue she steers a middle course between the "Prithee, m'lord" school and modern idiom. Most surprising of all, she is only 23 years...
...addition to sheer curiosity there are good policy reasons for encouraging a "strategic" analysis of the criminal underworld, an analysis that might draw on modern economics and business administration. Such an analysis, in contrast to "tactical" intelligence aimed at the apprehension of individual criminals, could help in identifying the incentives and the limitations that apply to organized crime, in evaluating the costs and losses and in restructuring laws and programs to minimize the costs, wastes and injustices that crime entails...
...faculty, at its emergency meeting, endorsed McIntosh's idea in part and called for the creation of a "joint faculty-student commission to consider new modes of governance and self-regulation appropriate to a modern American university community." This commission, they recommended, should give serious consideration to the "concerns and grievances expressed by so many of our students" during the strike...