Word: shibboleths
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...academic matters, student critiques of their professors are becoming commonplace. Since most professors cling to the shibboleth that letting a colleague observe their teaching would be an invasion of "academic freedom," student opinions ought to be incorporated into promotion procedures if good teaching is ever to get its just rewards. As it is now, teaching is judged mainly by grapevine gossip. "I have no idea how well my associates teach-I've never seen them," concedes Chicago Humanities Professor Herman Sinaiko. A large university simply could not function, however, if professors were subject to the total-and predictably whimsical...
...forecast "sacrifices of certain ideological considerations" as well as economic hardships in the forthcoming austerity program. That almost certainly means more cuts in military expenditures, but definitely hints at a trimming of many social welfare pets, including, perhaps, the restoration of a fee for prescription drugs, long a Labor shibboleth. In a mood of defiance, 30 Laborites fired off a warning "making it clear that we do not think it is necessary to cut social services." This attitude practically guarantees a rough winter ahead in Parliament...
...real blame for the sorry impasse lies with House Republicans, who under the shibboleth of state control have put forth a plan that is unwise and inequitable. It would result in poorer states getting a good deal less money than they now receive; Negroes and poor students would be the casualties in the Republican plan...
...nationalization of Britain's steel industry has long been an emotion charged shibboleth for British socialists. Clement Attlee's Labor government succeeded in taking over the industry in 1951 - only to be driven from office eight months later, partly because it had muddled the steel industry so badly. The Tories put most of steel back into private hands. When he took over as Prime Minister in 1964, Harold Wilson tried to renationalize steel with his thin majority, but retreated when he saw how perilous ly close the vote would be. Last week, with a healthy majority assured since...
...guidance system, hired a public relations expert to boost the school system's image, and secured adoption of Madison Park as the site for a new campus-type high school. None of these moves would have been possible during the turbulent rule of Chairman Hicks, whose obsession with the shibboleth of the neighborhood school blinded her to almost all channels of progress...