Word: relevantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bok: ...though grades and test scores are certainly relevant and helpful in trying to decide which students are capable of doing good academic work, they are by no means the only factor that can enter in a sound admissions decision. They don't tell you very much about what students...
Last week he said that there are rehabilitation programs that have been fruitful, but only on a minor scale. He added, "We haven't been successful in finding relevant strategies that are widely applicable."
Rationalizing his lack of sympathy, Wilson writes, "Caring--empathy--is the vulgar expression of ideology, where ideology exists. Sometimes empathy is an expression of nothing at all." Last week he said "the moral culpability" between an average burglar and the Watergate burglars is "exactly the same. [There is] no difference...
GENERAL EDUCATION at Harvard is in shambles. The original definition of the program, taken from the Harvard Redbook--"that part of education which should be common to everone--in particular, the goals should be effective thinking, communication, the making of relevant judgments and the discrimination of values"-has been lost...
Green Curtain. Armchair psephologists might have expected more of the network anchors, who crammed for the event as if it were a bar exam. Walter Cronkite, who for four years had been squirreling away newspaper clippings and other relevant nuggets of information, went into semi-seclusion weeks ago. Every day...