Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local audiences, and a major address for Kansas State University to prove that he is no anti-intellectual (see EDUCATION). The idea of running for President, he said, both "scared him to death" and "honored" him. But everywhere that Ronnie went, the crowds were sure to grow. At four Reagan-graced fund-raising sessions the G.O.P. grossed...
...change" from the "old, entrenched political machine." He is an energetic handshaker and baby-kisser who is not above pumping a dog's paw at a shopping-center rally. To support his argument that the election has great national implications, Nunn has imported such Republican luminaries as Ronald Reagan, George Murphy and Everett Dirksen to point out that a Nunn victory would be a Johnson defeat...
When he first proposed a tuition charge for students at the University of California, Governor Ronald Reagan quipped last week, "I could not have branded myself as any more anti-intellectual than if I had said, 'Me Tarzan. You Jane.' " At Kansas State University, where he was this year's Alfred M. Landon lecturer, Reagan (B.A. Eureka College, 1932) went on to spell out-in greater detail than ever before-his views on the purposes and problems of higher education...
...such problem is academic freedom. Reagan insisted that in this area all those with an interest in public universities-teachers, students, taxpayers, administrators and elected officials have legitimate and sometimes conflicting claims that "must be reconciled within a framework of mutual understanding and compromise." He deplored equally the ignorant taxpayer who sneers at "newfangled" courses and the student who would blithely eliminate all the required courses and grades, making "education a kind of four-year smorgasbord." Reagan also warned against educators who deny that there are any absolutes, "who see no black and white of right or wrong but just...
...purpose of the university, argued Reagan, is "to ensure perpetuation of a social structure-a nation, if you will." By this he meant not preservation of the status quo but a concern "for the individual and his right to fulfillment." In an age in which "acceptance is given more and more to the concept of lifting men by mass movements and collective action," said Reagan, the universities above all should remember the "road from the swamp to the stars is studded with the names of individuals who achieved fulfillment and lifted mankind another rung...