Word: nevitt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Academic man is slowly suffocating under the sheer volume of technical books and specialized papers. Although Stanford Psychologist Nevitt Sanford would not go so far as Fahrenheit 451, in which a future civilization bans and burns the printed word entirely, he does advocate a new form of birth control-for books...
College students talk brashly about sex; a commonplace crusade these days is for the sale of contraceptives in campus stores. But students practice sexual intercourse in about the same proportions as they have ever since the '20s, insists a respected researcher at Stanford University. Nevitt Sanford, professor of education and psychology, thinks that the news about campus sex lies in the way today's coed is groping for a more rational moral code and is less a pushover than her predecessors...
Strong & Balanced. Such personalism fails to impress some campus observers. "The big picture is unchanged," says Stanford Psychologist Nevitt Sanford. "Students are by and large not interested in the larger questions of the day in this country." Chatham's President Eddy frets that "youth is beginning to retreat behind excellence" to what he calls "the permanent alibi of scholarship." Critics also sourly complain that today's collegians are "totally defeatist" and "so damn sober." "There's a material sophistication that is not matched by a spiritual one," says one California professor, adding, "They all seem to have...
...disapprove of all dropouts. If dropouts lack "motivation," it may be a healthy reaction against too many rules and goals that-for them-are momentarily false. Adolescence is by definition a struggle to create a self. Sometimes an intelligent retreat is the best way to win. Says Stanford Psychologist Nevitt Sanford: "Leaving college may leave a student with a sense of unfinished business that will, in some cases, provide motivation for learning for the rest of his life...