Word: partially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then in the puzzle of finding an aim in life (a kid can't hang around the gang forever), the young man places all his hopes in having a normal healthy marriage and raising non-neurotic children. Thus, "togetherness" becomes a partial substitute for meaningful work. But of course, the responsibilities of a family only entrap a man more securely in the system...
...then lists some revolutions we have missed, or started, but compromised: technocracy, garden city, new deal syndicalism, class struggle, democracy, freedom of speech, liberalism, agrarianism, fraternity, brotherhood of races, pacifism, enlightenment, popular culture, sexual revolution (which Goodman refers to again and again), and of course, progressive education. Even this partial list hints at the scope of Goodman's approach...
Originally, junior high schools required their students to study algebra and foreign languages in the seventh and eighth grades. Urging a partial return to this plan, Conant suggests that junior high schools institute "elite" classes...
...pious who came to him hoping for instruction in prayer and contemplation would usually find themselves turning mattresses for the sick in hospitals. One woman (he was not partial to women since one had tried to seduce him ) complained to Philip that she was covered with lice from her hospital work, and his response was to tell her to eat one of them. He loved to lead pilgrimages to Rome's seven basilicas, and they took on the quality of gay outings, complete with plenty of food and wine, in which nobles rubbed shoulders with peasants and workmen...
Leverett's towers glowed with a dim bleakness last night under a partial blackout imposed by John J. Conway, Master of the House. Conway's reason: some 30 of the lightbulbs set in the ceilings behind the windows have exploded over the past few days. Under the circumstances, Conway advised tower inhabitants to find some other sources of illumination. He did not prohibit candles...