Word: projected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burgess Meredith narrates this Project 20 production that goes back into American history to look at the themes, ideals and values represented by national monuments such as the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials and the Washington Monument...
...tried to make the day their own, they have been continually challenged in the West by the Socialists, and lately by the anarchistic students of the New Left. On May Day last week both the Communists and their challengers, while occasionally clashing with each other and police, failed to project the heady fervor of earlier years...
...wholeness. Many intellectuals are also dismayed by the style of much intellectual thought today: the narrow pragmatism of the physical and behavioral sciences. The charge is that specialization has robbed thought of moral vision. In Big Science, for example, team members work on such small segments of an overall project that they feel no ethical responsibility for the result-a minor concern if the goal is a cancer cure, for example, but a major one if they work on pesticides...
...excited about Challenge this term. The teachers seem to share a much more relaxed and eased attitude toward their work. Many of us have realized that the children, their fulfillment and happiness, are the primary ends to keep in slight when we're teaching, not whether or not a project is completed. Too often, I think, people unknowingly see other people as objects with which to achieve certain ends which are said to be in the best interests of everyone involved. Such an orientation, when applied to children in a teaching situation, can result in a stifling and tense atmosphere...
...children seem to be enjoying Challenge a lot more this spring. They come more regularly, work more as a group, are spontaneous and alive within the loose structure of the project, and have drawn closer to their teachers as human beings rather than as authorities...