Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever one thinks of this situation--and there are many Old Guard educators who deplore it--the fact remains: the modern American college has gone a long way toward redefining its function by the mere process of redefining its student body. The college was yesterday what graduate school is today in the educational step-ladder: it has become what high school used to be. Students don't go to college now to become teachers or professional academics, although they may later go to grad school for this purpose. They go with all-defined but very real expectations, recognizing that...
Psychotherapy was intimidating. "First you discover that throughout your whole life you had been in the process of getting sick," one of the girls said. "Every move you made and every feeling you had had helped make you what you were now--unacceptable to the world." Another Cliffie described her therapy as "a steel claw tearing open my scabs . . . . During each session my hands shook and I could taste snot in my mouth." For some there was an irritating sense of disconnection, a feeling that while their pasts were being microscopically examined, they were wasting their present lives and shortchanging...
...Little Foxes depicts the passing of one system into another--of feudalism into capitalism--and the figures who resist the design of economic history are, to some extent, revolutionaries. Of course the line between liberalism and radicalism seemed less pronounced in 1939 than today, a fact which catalyzed this process of identification. But the play should remain, on one level, a parable of American social history; if this level has been obscured, it is not only through the Dean's polaroid lenses but through some error of emphasis on the part of the production's director, Mike Nichols...
Compulsory arbitration is now being suggested in some quarters as a last-ditch solution. Both management and labor are generally against it in the private sector, on the grounds that it undermines the collective-bargaining process. For the public sector, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has suggested what he calls "voluntary arbitration"-the intercession of an informed and mutually acceptable third party to engineer a settlement. One difficulty here is the genuine doubt that representative government, which receives its mandate from the public, can legally bind itself to an outside judgment...
Moonlit Pilots. By any reckoning, CAT has had more than one life. Caught in China's civil war, Chennault's outfit snarled Communist timetables of conquest by ferrying soldiers and supplies to the mainland. In the process, CAT became Nationalist China's civilian transport arm and the most shot-at airline in history. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan, CAT went along. From time to time, its crackerjack pilots moonlighted, accepting such missions as dropping French paratroopers into Dienbienphu...