Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that thinking begins in maladjustment to the environment and continues as an active, tough and difficult process . . . This was misunderstood by certain professional educators, whose influence exceeded their wisdom, to mean that the end of the educational process is the adjustment of our youngsters to their environment with no particular concern or activity on their part. For example, grades were eliminated so that the young person might not suffer the frustration of feeling inferior to others . . . This enormous sensitivity and tenderness for the sense of security and adaptation of the child is a frightful travesty upon Dewey's thinking...
Experimenting in a communist country offered particular opportunities for interviews with government and religious personnel. Meetings were arranged for the Experimenters with the head of the Communist Party in the province of Bosnia-Hercegovina, with labor and union leaders, with the head of public information and education, with the adviser to the agricultural cooperatives, and with religious officials...
...results of all this is that ninety percent of all Exeter students get into the college of their first choice, a fact which gives the Exeter pattern particular significance today. As college admission becomes more competitive, colleges will be able to demand better preparation of freshmen, and already Dean Bundy has suggested that Harvard do so. This emphasis on preparation will inevitably force other schools to put, in the continental tradition, more and more emphasis on competitive academic achievement...
...most insidious element in the denaturalization of the American films stems from the nature of the market. Studies have shown, Bluestone points out, that the habitual movie-goer (particularly female) depends on the weekly movie for an escape from the tedium of daily life. And of course, everything must turn out for the best and true love triumph in the end. Hence, too, the "star" system in which the viewer identifies himself with a particular actor and the actor with a particular role. The popular film is thus required to create and sell folk myths which are satisfying and reassuring...
...author's erudition never ceases to be impressive. He demonstrates a familiarity with almost everything written on his particular topic and a wide knowledge of general criticism. In the particular examples he chooses to analyse at length, he seems to have made a careful study of the original text and related critical and biographical material as well as of the shooting scripts and the final prints. In addition, he has investigated the feelings of the individual adapters and directors...