Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remains, 101 years after his commencement. A mere perusal of local "representative" organizations shows, however, that Harvard students are still unable to choose "representative" representatives, and partly as a result of this, the value of "personal or official standards" is still not set as high as Adams or his modern heirs would wish...
...dormitories, visits to selected classes, and discussions led by members of the faculty. Planned to show visitors "that the only proved asset of a university is its faculty," according to President Jordan, the sessions included subjects ranging from a movie on the African bushmen to "The Hero in the Modern Novel...
Murray analyzed the motives of "beatniks" and pointed out that their attitudes repudiated "the dominant American values." His conclusions that the beatniks were going "away from the search for identify" were in strong contrast to Hughes' comments on the increasing interest in modern history which shows the young's anxiety to establish a connection between themselves and the past...
Interspersed between the talks will be a scene from Wonderful Town, folk songs, a modern dance number, and several selections from the Freshman Chorus and the Choral Society...
...enlightening because Williams attempts a systematic historical account of the origins of modern diplomacy; it is disquieting because in his observations he challenges fundamental assumptions of the Western point-of-view. And if the Williams analysis does not strike the reader as totally valid, it at least drives home the point that the American outlook has a significant ideological, non-objective tinge...