Word: persons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such give and take may be a necessary evil. An unwillingness to compromise recently helped defeat proposed curricular reforms at Yale and Princeton. Many educators find no contradiction between the ideal of a single core of knowledge necessary for an educated person, and the fact that virtually every group of educators comes up with different specifications for that Core. Northwestern's Weingartner says, "there are many good ideas floating about. We don't have a tradition in which being educated is definable...
...actress's life? For my life? I do not want it to be that. Because in spite of the fact that the realness and humanness of my life seems separate now from those early dreams, the actual living of my life as an actress and as a person has been much richer, much more interesting than anything I imagined...
...Search of History, though, is not really an overview. Rather, it is a series of fascinating glimpses at large fragments of history and large personalities. White's first-person narrative covers his boyhood and his experiences in China, Europe during the 50's and the Kennedy Years. The personal narrative is held together by sketchy third-person narrations describing what actually happened during the time between the big events. Not only is this switching between reportage and narration disconcerting but it underlines the book's main problems...
...tensions and frictions so close to the surface of American, European or other Asian cities. One explanation is that the citizenry is governed by a public ethic that was not evident before the 1949 Revolution, or Liberation, as the Chinese prefer to call it. If, for example, a young person comes home with a wristwatch or a transistor radio that has obviously been stolen or otherwise illicitly acquired, he must not only surrender it; he must also undergo a somewhat Orwellian regimen of "self-criticism...
...Friendship Between Our Peoples. One of the first words the F.F. learns is kan-pei! Bottoms up! (literally, dry glass). Several hosts between toasts indicate that it is inadvisable to take only a sip of the rocket juice. "You have to drink in one gulp," advises one Responsible Person. "Otherwise you get headache...