Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conventional class-teaching methods, which may not be suitable to the humanities. "Our school organization," Sizer said, "is governed more by the necessities for the control of the students than for the logic of subject matter or the needs of children. In all probability," he continued, "any step forward will be a radical...
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Ellis called the vote a step toward a more effective student government. "I am pleased," he said, "that the new organisations will be given an opportunity to show that they can be effective voices of student opinion...
...Step Beyond. Just behind these movers and shakers are other black humorists, many with similar targets. The life-denying mindlessness often evident in modern psychiatric care got savagely raked in Ken Kesey's brilliant, creepy first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Television got its lumps in Golk, Richard G. Stern's novel about a TV show that puts unsuspecting people on camera. The Negro problem was the subject of Warren Miller's recent The Siege of Harlem, a sly, timely pseudo history of how Harlem became a separate nation. Some writers, of course...
Satire has always been an aggressively complex response to the world. As employed by the black humorists, it is a response to a world grown mechanized and impersonal, where even stupidity, viciousness and anxiety can seem institutionalized. At its most proficient, their writing takes the step beyond complaint to scorn; beyond alienation to the assertion of the individual; beyond the" absurd to laughter at absurdity. At its worst, their laughter can be shrill, silly, or self-indulgent. It has yet to blow down Jericho, let alone the Book-of-the-Month Club. For the best of the new breed, writers...