Word: orientedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's first appointment to the new administration was fellow member Cyrus R. Vance to succeed Henry A. Kissinger '50 as Secretary of State. Vance was Deputy Secretary of Defense under Robert S. McNamara and defended the escalation of bombing in Vietnam. Vance, in turn, has appointed three other commission...
In a paper published last summer, the commission called for the reform of international economic institutions, saying it was time to "think in terms of managing a single world economy." But it is unlikely that the heavily business-oriented commission would actually advocate policies beneficial to the developing nations.
Huntington attributes this decline in the "governability of democracy" to a "stratum of value-oriented intellectuals who often devote themselves to the derogation of leadership, the challenging of authority, and the delegitimation of established institutions." Huntington concludes that in an age of widespread education and pervasive mass media, this "challenge...
Many of our contemporary educational problems and controversies can be understood as part of a persisting American ideological commitment to success-to a firm belief in its possibility, to a desire for proof of its achievement, here and now. Even Cotton Mather, no pagan hedonist or crass materialist or psychologically...
To Playwright Arthur Miller, the why of violence has always been dramatically crucial-whether it is a man's murder of his family benefactor (A View from the Bridge) or the suicides of Willy Loman and Miller's former wife, Marilyn Monroe (Death of a Salesman and After...