Word: notional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turmoil U.S. ghettos is presenting a broad-reaching challenge to the University's traditional notion of professionalism. Academic degrees simply do not measure a man's capacity to evaluate ghetto problems and communicate them to students, lrate ghetto parents seeking control of public schools have long argued that despite fourth-grade educations, they have a better understanding of the needs of ghetto children than any suburban-raised white Ph.D. Harvard owes its developing social scientists the broader perspective which only black instruction can provide. As the League itself pointed out, not every educated black retains this all-important sense...
...civil disorders. Both directly and by implication, he disputed the President's riot-commission findings. "A major deficiency" of the report, he said, is its "tendency to lay the blame for the riots on everyone except the rioters." Disputing the commission's attempt to debunk the notion that riots are planned by extremists, Nixon in a radio-network speech alluded to conspiracies to ignite next summer. Only a combination of efforts can avert racial upheavals, Nixon said, and he attributed equal importance to bringing "the American dream to the ghetto" and preparing "to meet force with force...
...nervous G.I. should run across a South Vietnamese civilian carrying a copy of the map shown above, he could be forgiven the notion that he had collared a Viet Cong spy. Next to the bomb-burst symbols at each city, the map also has such suspicious and cryptic legends as "50 outlets, 14 trucks, five Americans, 70 Vietnamese." A plan for a coordinated attack on Allied bases? Not at all. The map shows distribution points used by the company that delivers TIME magazine to U.S. forces...
...Think Tank. The program might have been laid out according to the McLuhan notion that in TV, form counts more than content. In M:I the Tinkertoy stuff on the screen is far more important than plot logic. In one elaborate ruse, the M:I team stole a whole train and pulled one car full of passengers into a shed where, with the help of films and sound effects, they convinced the passengers that there had been a wreck. In another, they saved the day by starting an earthquake with supersonic waves. This week, they unnerved a murder-for-hire...
YESTERDAY'S sit-in at University Hall was not a sensational event and probably will not prove sensationally effective. Wisely ignoring the Dow recruiter two blocks away, the 200 protesters did make their point--that they not only deplore the Vietnam war but also reject the notion that the University can remain neutral to the war effort. It is hard to tell whether anyone listened, but the SDS-led protest was serious and cohesive and may accelerate the SFAC debate on recruitment policy and lead to more productive war protest efforts like the draft resistance union being organized here next...