Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This elitist outlook toward politics was also shared by the intellectuals, particularly college professors. They exhibited their sceptical attitude toward members of the Diet and insisted that the majority in the Diet did not represent the "will of the people," revealing their contempt for the competence of the voters to choose. Nevertheless, unless the intellectuals are very careful in approaching the subject of "enlightening the voting public," they will further alienate themselves from the common strata of Japanese society. After the hypertheoretical per- spective of the intellectual results in a lack of realism in answering more concrete questions of daily...
...become bogged down in an intellectual dead end--but it is ironic that he often is forced to change those attitudes which originally led him to Harvard: his views on the meaning of education, his own intellectual pretensions, and the relation of intellect to his own social outlook...
...school where a majority of the top of the class is bound for Yale, Harvard receives a group which has thought of itself as an intellectually oriented and superior minority. On arrival they find that the grading system does not endorse their superiority, that people with the same social outlook they rejected at Andover are quite successful at Harvard, and Harvard is not quite as ready as they had hoped to embrace all intellectuals with unqualified social success...
...that intellectual success no longer comes easily, the Andover graduates often reject their intellectual role, join clubs, and start behaving much like the students they refused to associate with at Andover. They complete the protective change by forgetting their erstwhile intellectual pretensions and remembering a far more social outlook than they actually held at school...
...McCarley studied the Freshman year with extensive and examined the "total institution" . Although his conclusions suggested reservation on the "totality' of the Freshman year, he a student culture, and found that rather representing the upper class values of the Harvard stereotype, the College was dominated by a middle class outlook. Indeed, showed that their emphasis on ascribed and experiencing college put students from upper class backgrounds under greater stress than middle class contemporaries who emphasis achieved status and looked at the College opportunity for further achievement...