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This point leads to a third. The widely publicized so-called "reform" of the Core curriculum at Harvard was largely motivated, according to the faculty, by growing concerns about the ethical content of a Harvard College education. It's been asserted that the Harvard stamp should attach only to humans capable of thinking in value-terms and able to make responsible, value-laden decisions, which we all must do every day. A University which, in its operations in the world, fails to struggle with the practice of what it "preaches" in its classrooms, truly exposes its freedom and independence...
...Premier Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing) stepped up the Four Modernizations campaign in November, there were hopes that China's interest in American technology would extend to such Western values as human rights and intellectual freedom. No such luck. The Peking government is now trying to stamp out those pernicious notions in what seemed to be a reprise of the anti-intellectual purge in 1957 that crushed Chairman Mao's short-lived 'let a hundred flowers bloom" campaign...
...Alfred Wallis (1855-1942), never experienced such affection and fame in their own lifetimes-which, admittedly, were shorter than that of Anna Mary Robertson Moses, who died in Eagle Bridge, N.Y., in 1961 at the age of 101. By then, she had received two honorary doctorates, and a 6? stamp had been issued to commemorate her; Edward R. Murrow had put her on television; New York State had twice declared Grandma Moses Day; her work had been exhibited round the world and interminably reproduced on greeting cards. Next to Norman Rockwell, she was the best-known American artist...
...soon had the Americans firmly committed to the cause of Scottish independence. Dressed in a kilt with all the trappings, the text of his speech was primarily the American Declaration of Independence. He compared the Act of Union, which joined Scotland and England in 1707, to America's hated Stamp Tax, and he likened SNP leaders William Wolfe and Margo MacDonald to Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. The analogy was undeniably forced, but Bicentennial fever had struck the Americans already, and they gave a thunderous ovation to this fiery Scotsman whose cheeks were rosy from daily games of golf...
This year is officially (according to United Nations decree) the International Year of the Child (IYC). The only visible American commemoration so far this year has been typically mercenary: the Postal Service last month issued a stamp to honor the event (and to rake in loads of dough from stamp collectors). Last year Dr. Peter Bourne (remember him?) was temporarily in charge of the U.S. national commission to coordinate IYC activities in this country...