Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distribution of income, wealth, and power within the United States, and between the U.S. and the Third Would. In dealing with income distribution, we emphasize the importance of educational institutions and their economic function in affecting income inequality. The editorial's suggestion that the issue of grading forms a particularly large part of the course in incorrect, although it is fair to say that our position on grading arose from discussion concerning the particular course lecture in which grading received some analytical attention...
Secondly, it is correct, as the editorial states, that we do object to grading because of the particular socio-economic implications, of the grading system. However, and in addition, our objections derive more directly from a concern for the quality of educational activity fostered by grading...
Films of Socialist realism, because they promote a particular ideology, always answer in the affirmative. Womack's answer is less biased, but strangely equivocal. He shows how, when Carranza was overthrown, the remaining Zapatista leaders won pivotal roles in the government of Obregon. The ejido program of the early twenties, which granted previously-claimed land to villages, was a Zapatista victory. The boost given the ejidos by Cárdenas in the thirties nearly satisfied the revolutionary goals of the Morelos villagers...
...even deign to read about rock and roll at all is to have their own strongly held opinions confirmed about all the records and groups in the rock universe. So the rock writer is always under a heavy obligation to explain exactly why he himself likes or dislikes a particular album or group. And the only way he can do so is to invent a theoretical framework within whose terms all of rock music can be better understood. Unless he puts his discussion of value in terms which are supposed to be universally true the skeptics in the audience will...
...plaguing rock concern the merits of the Doors and the Beach Boys. Both groups have pockets of passionate defenders who try to counter the majority opinion which is overwhelmingly critical. Paul Williams is an important and influential voice who makes an articulate and gripping defense of both groups. In particular Williams thinks extraordinarily highly of the Beach Boys and of their guiding spirit Brian Wilson. He devotes nearly 50 pages of the book to exploring Brian Wilson's psyche and enthusing over the Beach Boys' music. The net effect is certainly to force one to reconsider all one's opinions...