Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been estimated that in two years the delicate mechanism of training will have ground out sufficient numbers of instructors to give department heads quality as well as quantity to choose from. With this prospect within view, relatively few of the departments have made any attempt to alter their budgets to absorb this new strength. In the Social Sciences, Government still offers tutorial to that 25 percent who are candidates for honors; History has not budged from its original stand, and Economics offers no tutorial but merely a makeshift arrangement for thesis consultation. More disconcerting than this present indifference...
...evaluate. The second is that the individual departments have been more willing to accept this pressure than they have been to stand firm now for some concrete planning that would actually put strength into the tutorial system. And lastly, the issue of tutorial has been allowed to slip from view: a highly dangerous development if students are to grow aware of what they are losing...
From the gilt edged ivory towers that line Harvard Square, a music lover almost invariably takes a rather lenient view toward musicians who either laid out a welcome mat for the Nazis or at best knuckled under. "Art and Politics don't have any connection with one another" is the most popular synthesis of this idea. I had always thought that with some obvious exceptions this was true, but an analysis of the situation from another point of observation reveals the entire relationship between such musicians and the Nazi regime in a completely different light...
...difficult to dispose of surplus goods; the withdrawal of increasing sections of the world from the orbit of capitalist control into that of the socialistic states; the greatly increased productivity of the United States making inevitable and increasing the intensity of the crisis when it comes. In Sternberg's view, these factors will force a major depression with the possibilities of resolving it under the present economic system more remote than they were...
Since the progressive and anti militarist forces within this country would, in his view, be great enough to prevent a turn to a fascist dictator, the dominant capitalists would attempt to enforce a semi-war program in an effort to preserve their privileges, while assuring a moderate prosperity to the workers. This program would, when combined with a new type of imperialism allied to general reaction, lead to increased dangers of another war. To combat this danger Sternberg falls back on the progressives, urging them to expose this danger and to prepare an adequate foreign as well as domestic program...