Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sterility of the debate so far is due in part to the difficulty of discussing Gen Ed at all; it is a large, loose topic with a complicated history. And the chance for intelligent discussion over the past two years was ignored by the Administration, which inexplicably insisted that the work of the Doty Committee be shrouded in secrecy...
Finally, I find the CRIMSON's contention that breadth should supersede depth an indication of the shallowness of its own thinking. One year is just not enough to discuss adequately on any level a topic as broad as those with which Gen. Ed. courses deal. Indeed, a Gen Ed course, by its very nature, should be more careful and detailed in its presentation of material than a departmental course. It should try to provide insights into its material and the way in which the scholar deals with it. It is ridiculous to assert that the student is benefited more...
Debating on the topic "Resolved That Race Relations Can Be Improved by Legislation," the Harvard teams had a collective won-lost record...
With almost identical plot and characters, Fail Safe pretends to be a high-minded discussion of the same topic. But it comes off as a monstrous joke. Where Strangelove is mocking. Fail Safe is sententious, and where Strangelove is incisive Fail Safe is obtuse. Director Sidney Lumet has merely placed a stock collection of political and military figures in an unrealistic situation and had them mouth inanities about cold war and atomic destruction...
...severe Jonah complex. Here the undergraduate feels himself engulfed in helplessness. He sleeps through breakfast, but goes to dinner early so he may watch T.V. afterwards in his house common room. Directionless, he rarely studies, but thinks about studying perpetually. If he is a senior, he lacks a thesis topic. Jonah arrived in his predicament through running away. So does his namesake. The whale of Harvard swallows him. (In its most critical form, the Jonah complex is transmuted into the Amos complex. In the Bible, Amos was the Herdsman of Tekoa crying in the wilderness...