Word: sorting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...published in the past (This judgment excludes Riesman and Jencks' Academic Revolution, which is a fine history of higher education in America, but which has some glaring commissions on federal influence and the rise of the multiversity.) Barzun's book was generally discredited by the liberals who read this sort of thing. He appeared to be too much of an educational elitist, and he made some nasty remarks about students. And he seemed to be against progress...
...THIS SORT of good-humored piece is almost beyond criticism. Yet I feel that its simplicity, facility, and accessibility collapsed into a mere smile of irritating urbanity. Nearly every one of Britten's works is charming; in fact, so is nearly every British and American work that is ever performed. Billy the Kid, Rodeo, Red Pony, Appalachian Spring, The Incredible Flutist, and Tender Land are all charming. The Tallis and Greensleeves fantasias, Young Person's Guide, Ceremony of Carols, and Spring Symphony are all exquisitely charming, irresistibly delicious. But I, for one, am slowly drowning in this unendurably "childlike" floodtide...
...member of the Harvard Class of 1936 and the Harvard Business School Class of 1938. When I was in college I was of a considerable "liberal" turn of mind myself and I think that there is something wrong with young people who look around and see the sort of condition the world is in and not want to do something about it. I believe in the almost permissiveness towards these young people as far as their expressing their opinions and attempting to back these opinions with action consistent with the rights of others to have differing opinions...
...believe, however, that the recent action of the students in University Hall goes far beyond democratic processes into the realm of dictatorship or anarchism. I believe that this sort of action should be dealt with in the sternest possible fashion. The idea that students who have a four-year residence at the University should insist by force that their idea of how this 333 year-old University should be run, how far into Cambridge it should expand, and some of their other outre plans is patently ridiculous. It's amazing that they have not yet told the University officials...
...remember how I myself had looked forward for much of the summer to coming back early to Cambridge and preparing to teach in Challenge; how I had viewed it as an opportunity to expose children to the sort of education of which I felt deprived. It was the sort of education which would allow the children to experience themselves and one another in a creative, spontaneous and alive way; one levels of expression, sensitivity and communication...