Word: thought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the originally planned text of his effusive message of greeting to De Gaulle. In huge type, the paper printed this excerpt: "Few leaders of the modern world think so broadly as you, Mr. President. Few have so well understood the great historical sweeps of the past. Few have thought so clearly about the future. Few have so considered the interplay of forces that shape events, the motivations of men and nations." It was an extraordinary paean to the Frenchman who has so stubbornly obstructed every European and American effort toward political, economic and military solidarity-and one that might...
...terribly subject" to those New York winter chills, and he has already tried the Sahara and the Caribbean. Miami was a thought, "because it's so infinitely sordid and untempting." So now Author Truman Capote is settled in Palm Springs, Calif., working away on his first book since In Cold Blood. It's to be called Answered Prayers, said Truman, striking that languid reclining pose that he made famous on the jacket of Other Voices, Other Rooms 21 years ago. His new book will have lots of characters and "some of them will be recognizable." That...
...developing his argument, Jensen, makes some notable contributions to educational thought -- contributions which almost all the respondents (environmentalists solicited by the Harvard Education Review to criticize Jensen's piece) praised and accepted. Jensen disposes first of the concept of the "average child," the assumption that all children are essentially alike in the way they learn and in what they learn best. This notion, that kids are like so many dolls from the same assembly line, is responsible for much of the curricular and instructional rigidity that has crippled both black and white education in this country. Jensen's emphasis...
Levine said that although the candidacy began as a joke, he became serious about it when he realized that it could "put some life into coeducation." He added, "I thought I could encourage Leverett House to become less formal...
Then I realize that his analysis pretty much got it. I'm rich and had a whole lot of opportunities as a kid and so that's why I'm at Harvard, or that's why they thought I was "smart" and so am at Harvard. And he's poor, has about zero alternatives, of which working for Harvard is the best one. Yeah, I said, he's right. I can't really argue with that. It exists. So do I. So does...