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Recruiting, selection, and training have been rethought and changed in the past year. The Corps will seek out the activist on campus, go to the unions for blue-collar workers, to 4-H clubs for future farmers. It will try to establish a year-round interest in the Corps on the campuses by sponsoring seminars to be attended by returned volunteers and recruiting professors to serve as advisors overseas during sabbaticals. Starting with about one third of this summer's programs, the Corps will get rid of lectures and role learning in training. It will try to prepare Volunteers...

Author: By Jonathan B. Mark:, | Title: The Peace Corps: I | 2/28/1966 | See Source »

Chances are, however, that he is merely trying to push things to the brink of chaos and then have the pieces reassembled more to his liking. Said Pompidou: "The Atlantic Alliance must be rethought. It must be remolded, reorganized." Probably true, but how? Neither Pompidou nor Couve nor anyone else in France so far has made any practical suggestions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: To NATO's Brink | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...Wilson is indeed disturbing. Claiming that jungle ants can abide each other after all, the zoologists are seeking to subvert a time-tested law of the universe. If there is any basis in their theory of "character displacement," it will mean that all existing philosphies will have to be rethought. Everyone knows that science determines the nature of the prevalent world view. In the eighteenth century Newton forced Alexander Pope to write in rhyming couplets, and in the nineteenth century Darwin caused the birth of Robber Barons and the death of Louis Agassiz. Now, once again (almost with the frequency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Age of Apathy | 3/27/1956 | See Source »

...stands for more than tradition. He is one of the few Christians of his time who have successfully rethought some of his church's basic premises without infringing its Gospel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop in the Front Line | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

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