Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have read this brief selection as background for the rest of my discussion of the Deaf Dumb and Blind Boy concept. As far as I can tell, with a few rare exceptions, it is the scientist who usually explores different points of view, seeking some sort of objectivity. It seems that one of the most revealing ways of exploring one-self is to examine the limits and variances in perception. It is such an inquiry into ourselves that is at the roots of Deaf Dumb and Blind Boy. Suppose a person has none of the normal mechanisms of perception...
...Harvard and Radcliffe is to coeducationalize the Houses--to institute coeducational living accommodations at Harvard and Radcliffe. Coeducational housing would obviate virtually all the problems that arise from the present system. It would provide for informal contacts between men and women; it would enable men and women to view each other more as people than dating objects; it would have numerous educational advantages. The experience at ather universities which have instituted coeducational housing, such as Stanford and Cornell, has been distinctly favorable...
...mood to gratify this intellectual need. Similarly, the juvenile ape, observing grownup behavior, mimes it in his games. For this pleasurable educational system, modern man has substituted the discipline of the classroom and the material rewards of grades, both of which, in Washburn's view, offend man's basic biological nature...
This apocalyptic view typifies only too well what Sociologist Lewis Feuer, in an article, describes as "the student movement's abdication from reason." Now teaching in Toronto, Feuer observed the 1964 Berkeley rebellion as a member of the faculty there. Deploring "the student movement's attraction to violence, direct action and generational elitism," he is not a bit less shocked by the "moral surrender of the elder generation...
...central problem of Little Murders has not been, and probably cannot be, resolved. It is still a series of animated cartoons spliced together, and not an organic drama. The characters do not develop; they reiterate attitudes. One is aware of a point of view, but not of a range of life. The setting is Manhattan's Upper West Side, the people a middle-class family. From the beginning, much of the humor revolves around an inversion of sexual roles. The men, father, son and photographer-fiancé, are towers of Jello. The women, wife and daughter, are ice picks...