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...Interfaith Forum has been hailed by students, faculty and chaplains alike as fulfilling a dire need of the University. The rapid growth of a group such as the forum indicates a progression of students' attitudes towards global and meaningful perspectives...
...into nostalgia; it was no longer in synch with social reality. Most Americans lived in cities, and the myth of the West was just that: a myth, however durable. The real frontier was urban--a place of hitherto unimagined overcrowding, of cultural collision enforced by huge-scale immigration, of rapid change, where class ground against class like the imperfect rollers of a giant machine. Its epitome was New York City--Bagdad-on-the-Subway, as the writer O. Henry called it--a city in convulsive and continuous transition, bursting at the seams with high spirits, misery and spectacle...
...Rabbit as part of the tradition of Californian dystopian novels. When she began writing, her vision of California was relatively bleak. She wanted to emphasize the isolation and loneliness that often comes with living in a condominium community like Ruth's "Paradise Lagoon." She was also concerned with the rapid growth and development that was choking the state. Now, after a few Boston winters, Phillips says her vision of California is more positive...
...examine closely the histories of other countries in the world, it's not hard to find out that student movements have rarely succeeded. Especially in East Asia, where the rapid economic growth has involved heavy government intervention, anything pro-democracy arising in an inappropriate time would be almost certain to fall short of its goals. By "inappropriate" I mean a time when the economic base of the social structure is not yet sufficient to afford freedom and human rights...
Incidentally, Goodman is offering a study group titled, "From Campaigning to Governing: Communicating to Win in a Rapid Response Media Environment...