Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...address in Houston the previous night to come up with that judgment. In fact, the thrust of Bok's remarks was that in the face of new technology in society and demands for relevance in American education, colleges and universities must not lose sight of the pursuit of "pure knowledge...
...examine the basic teaching and learning relationships at Harvard. He has previously hit on this theme, addressing himself to curriculum reform in his annual report to the Board of Overseers and in countless speeches. Seldom, though, has he couched his educational interests in the rhetoric of "pure learning," or what people refer to with varying degrees of seriousness as The Life of the Mind...
What Bok seeks is "how to develop a sense of balance," to "struggle not to give up independence, pure learning and abstraction." This represents the same challenge faced by President Eliot of how to avoid choosing between the highest type of academic endeavor. Only now the challenge is "more subtle and pervasive," Bok said...
Finally, the Science section will examine the growing public indifference-even hostility-to technological achievements. The story will trace the mysterious course that pure science seems to be taking and reflect the realization of some scientists themselves that they have fewer answers than they once believed...
...THAT ties it together is Danny Deck's personality. He's unpretentious, but that's no virtue when everything analytic or intellectual is viewed as pretentious. He's ironically cutting, at times, but only if we accept Deck's emotional motivations as being more pure than those of the people he attacks. Mostly he is just sweet and silly, and that does get tiresome...