Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...internal logic and the sociology of it." Revolution happens, he says, when people feel an intolerable injustice, but it is not required in the push for perfectability. Terrill does allow for the possibility that the Chinese will grow apathetic, making it easier for a rigid bureaucracy to take root--"the old combination of legalism from above and Taoism from below...
...however, Heard and many others believe that higher education in the South is emerging "from the shackles of its inheritance." One major reason: the region is no longer burdened by a polarized biracial society, which Heard feels was the root cause of its economic, cultural and educational problems. The rapid economic growth of the region should also help contribute to its universities' welfare. Says Heard: "Over the long haul, the most important single determinant of academic quality is the financial strength of the institution." The faculty salaries at Southern four-year colleges for all ranks of teachers average...
Southerners quite possibly devote more time to the preparation and consumption of breakfast, lunch and dinner than any other society since Augustan Rome. Drawing from the world's most abundant living larder, from the fish and flesh, fruit, root and leaf on their doorsteps and jetties, they have codified a cuisine that, for variety and piquancy, ranks with anything served in Florence or Provence. Southern cooking is essentially regional, indigenous and inventive, a long frypan throw from the elegantly stylized haute cuisine of Paris or Rome. To the educated palate a Southern meal, at its diverse best, is worth...
Longtime SftP member Michael Teel, formerly an instructor in a course called "Science and Society" at U-Mass at Amherst and presently a labor organizer there, also insists that it is the AAAS that has changed. There is a new consciousness beginning to take root, he says, the result of Vietnam, Watergate, and the persistent efforts of groups like the SftP...
...exactly certain at this time why the course was dropped, but several of the former teachers of the journalism section surmise that at the root of the problem is the misleading title of the course and the attitude towards it which Meislin expressed. Some of the committee members unfamiliarity with the course content and confusion about its title--journalism--bears out this assumption. Harvard has always frowned upon offering courses in applied arts, and Robbins says he feels that this attitude may be at the root of the decision to eliminate what appears to some to be a training ground...