Word: needed
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...sensed the need to inspire, the opportunity for grand works, and he tried. "Somehow we must ignite a fire in the breast of this land, a flaming spirit of adventure that really demands greatness," he said after a few months in office. Yet his matches often flickered out. He went to Ann Arbor that first spring as President to proclaim the Great Society, to challenge the nation to use its "wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our American civilization." A few years later, the Great Society was gone from the presidential vocabulary...
...county grand jury of nine whites and 14 Negroes stood in an Atlanta courtroom last week as a judge empowered them to investigate the need for better crime-and gun-control legislation in Atlanta. In their first official act, the jurors then elected a foreman: the Rev. Martin Luther King...
...institutions. In all the lower primates, the education process is informal. Washburn has shown, for instance, that primate curiosity-which in man would be called basic research-comes into play when the animal is well-fed and secure; only then is he in the mood to gratify this intellectual need. Similarly, the juvenile ape, observing grownup behavior, mimes it in his games. For this pleasurable educational system, modern man has substituted the discipline of the classroom and the material rewards of grades, both of which, in Washburn's view, offend man's basic biological nature...
...dirty joke, says Legman, owes its popularity to the urgent male need to allay this anxiety. One of the most effective antidotes to fear is laughter, and man has been guffawing for years at fears of his own sexual inadequacy or of the menacing, potentially castrating accomplice who lurks in the conjugal equation...
Since 12,000 publications in the U.S. are devoted to one or another aspect of education, the country's scholars would hardly seem to be in urgent need of more. George Bonham, a New York education consultant, believes, however, that the need is greater than ever just because of the flood of journals. Last week Bonham began the publication of Change, a bimonthly magazine that is pledged to be "an irreverent foe of all that is arcane, banal and irrelevant in higher education...