Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revivals, one quickly learns, cry out for the consensus of a homogeneous congregation that will respond to the preacher's demands. "Well, here we are again," Michael Walzer began. But it didn't work. His "we" was too highly suspect, for the only common denominator in the hall was a common distrust. One turned to his neighbor and, instead of a reassuring glance, found him virtually unrecognizable. How could those in front of you applaud McCarthy? Why did those in back not hiss down Riegle? Walzer himself, however expertly, played the game, balancing the boos and hisses off against...
...when they tried to keep us from building Currier House." She looks at that period as one of national upheaval, which carried over to anti-authoritarian feelings on campus. "That year there was such a strong feeling against President Johnson, that any president was part of the establishment and suspect. I found it difficult to talk to anyone...
...Something is eating me," writes Brustein in his new book. "I have the conviction, and it grows rather than lessens, that we are living in a profoundly decadent society. Worse, I suspect that some of the very things that are taken as symbols of transformation are themselves further signs of decline. Our age is apocalyptic, which means that human or institutional failings of any kind can become the occasion for total refusal, so that whatever is solid and firm in our tradition is abandoned along with whatever is corrupt." Stating his apocalyptic vision at the start, Brustein uses...
...begin to suspect that the materials of instruction are of secondary importance, that the conditions and settings for learning must be sound and humane before any formal curriculum can have meaning," Sizer explained...
...Bronx-a mean blade, good with a saxophone or a motorcycle, the flamboyant, randy and infinitely dexterous picaro of Tenth Street. But by the end of the '60s, his virtues had to an extent rebounded on his reputation. His astounding skill as a traditional, realistic draftsman looked vaguely suspect to some critics. The ironical love with which he raided the beaux-arts tradition for such images as Napoleon, a reworking of David's 1812 portrait of the hero, struck them as literary but in the wrong way: not philosophical enough, unconcerned (unlike Johns and Rauschenberg) with the semantics...