Word: relevantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sir: Once upon a time, when 90% of the material offered by the media was romantic, some concerned people suggested that perhaps the media should give us something more relevant and realistic.
And what of the nonbiodegradable plastic cups that you so casually consume and throw away, polluting your environment, and the environment of those around you? Is it relevant to ask that chemicals be thrown into rivers, even the Charles, that search for the purity of the ocean, seeking to escape...
But seriously, he said, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WHEN YOU GROW UP? How can a senior, he said, possibly communicate that empty question, that secret fear, the experience of negation and the negation of experience, to one-who-is-not-a-senior? How can I senior dare to...
The classic Utopias were often quite relevant to the real world. They projected patterns of life and politics that were later adopted. Universal suffrage, the separation of the powers of government, the basic ingredients of the welfare state were first suggested by Utopian thinkers. Wrote Anatole France: "Without the Utopians...
The procedures seemed heretical six years ago. Campus radicals in California expanded their teach-ins into the "Free University of Berkeley," where students abolished course requirements and grades and designed their own "relevant" curriculum. Still in business, the Free University has been copied in some 40 other locations. Moreover, the...