Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five years ahead of what the protesters of the '60s were doing relative to U.S. involvement in Vietnam. And thanks to Ronald Reagan, we stand united. What we need now are new leaders, real leaders. And it's time for the generation of the '80s to fill that role...
...Senator Hart accepts the scrutiny that comes with his leadership role in the Democratic Party and the country. But scrutiny and questions of character are one thing: character assassinations are entirely another," Dixon added...
...support some wing over another wing, say the left wing over the right wing, or that I support some "ism" ideology like socialism, communism or capitalism. I understand "politics" to mean in the broad sense how one deals with social organizations, how we arrive at decisions concerning society, the role of government, the role of education, the role of the press in informing the public, how information is processed (by the press, by individuals, by the educational system, by the government, etc.) In particular, I now have a direct responsibility for the political role of the NAS, which issues reports...
...also raise questions about the certification process available in our society concerning the quality of what is produced the social "sciences" ("studies" would be a better word), journalism, education, and political discourse. The NAS plays some role in this certification process. I object to the NAS certifying as "science" what are merely political opinions and their implementations...
...element. But his freewheeling style so offended colleagues in the philosophy department that his friend and patron, President Robert Maynard Hutchins, had to tuck Adler into the law school, where he held the informal title of Professor of Blue Sky. He has always cherished the role of what he calls a "non grata in academe," preferring to communicate his message, largely through his books, to America at large. He has done so with such success that Michael Timpane, president of Columbia's Teachers College, calls Adler "the last great Aristotelian," that is, life master of deductive logic...