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...Utopia, perhaps, a student might enter college, study for some unspecified period, and, having discovered some knowledge and questions, leave to do some job that seemed challenging, important, fun. He might live far away from college and family; he might establish a family of his own. At the end of some years he might discover a more useful and rewarding vocation for which he he were inadequately trained. Or he might perhaps find questions to which it seemed important, and apart form vocation, to try to discover answers. And he might return, eventually to his original work, perhaps to something...
...Utopia, perhaps, a student might enter college, study for some unspecified period, and, having discovered some knowledge and questions, leave to do some job that seemed challenging, important, fun. He might live far away from college and family; he might establish a family of his own. At the end of some years he might discover a more useful and rewarding vocation for which he were inadequately trained. Or he might perhaps find questions to which it seemed important, apart from vocation, to try to discover answers. And he might return, then, to the university, for a year...
...from shattering the antique concept of non-partisan support of the Administration's foreign policy. The concept is no less dangerous because it is so old; Senator Vandenberg's aims no longer seem to apply. In a curious way the government has helped perpetuate the idea (Kennedy called it "utopia" in his speech) that not only politics but dissent as well stop at the waterline, by recruiting many of its most active critics into the Executive branch. The concentration of a body of experts, combined with too much talk of national purpose, has bred the singular philosophy that the Administration...
...year, but there is plenty of Christianity in the executive suite. Among numerous good works, he was for years sole angel of the Christian Century, still meets most of the magazine's deficit. Miller has also turned his home town of Columbus into something of a Christian Utopia, helps finance public school building, is contributing a new campus to nearby Butler University's theological seminary...
...many others, the discovery that Harvard is not an intellectual utopia and that brilliance is not tantamount to social acceptance brings a crisis in the whole attitude toward knowledge. A vision of Harvard which anticipates social success arising from intellectual ability is often reason for coming, and the discovery that no synthesis exists, that the academic conscience which drove them through school does not bring adequate rewards, and that, more intelligent or no, others are clearly more sophisticated, all can be profoundly disturbing...