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Forty students and tutors congregated Saturday and Sunday on the top floor of Holyoke Center for a freewheeling overview of College education, which produced 195 specific reform suggestions for Harvard...
Whatever the level of federal bil lions, the U.S. is going to need the kind of overview offered by urbanologists like Moynihan if its cities are to survive and thrive. Last spring, Rhode Island's Providence College awarded Moynihan an honorary degree that was accompanied by a particularly apt citation: "You have dared to throw light on some of the most frightening problems facing urban dwellers, not to elicit common agreement with your solutions so much as to force us to look where we would rather not." Moynihan and the other urbanologists may not have all the answers...
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...education does not mean indoctrination in a party line. At best the group would claim a "somewhat coherent overview" of what must be done to change American society. This step-down from dogma again sets off the generation of the 60's. The radicals of the 50's, similar to their predecessors of the 30's, held an almost Stalinist conception of leadership whereby a few key leaders would give the group its doctrine. These earlier radicals view the lack of ideology as the main weakness of the New Left. To them, SDS is "hung up on problems of participatory...
...faculty members and physicians who say that you are of sound enough mind, and body to, say, enter graduate school face the same challenge in filling out forms that you do. The same passion for a complete, readable overview which leads the State Department to describe the Curriculm Vitae as a "narrative statement giving a pic- ture of yourself as an individual" may motivate its instructions to your doctor ("Comment in full on cranial nerves, motor status and coordination, reflexes, and equilibrium and indicate if the applicant has ever suffered from seizure...