Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Updike made a talented try at marrying priapism to poetry by using hard-breathing language as the preacher. Your review almost succeeded where Updike's novel fails-that is, to see beyond the current public American view of sexuality as a gee-whiz genital performance. But neither your reviewer nor Updike ever really found a way out of Updike's Tarbox. I believe you ought to get some reading done away from the Greenwich commuter's bar car. There's a whole landscape of really living people outside who aren't the lost adolescents...
Equally important, the Coleman Report--the triumph of the survey technique--made one thing very clear: the survey's telescopic view will never be enough. Researchers must study education at the microscopic level--in the ghetto classroom--to learn what is really wrong with ghetto schools. The small informal community classroom offers just as much opportunity for close and productive study as the stale, standardized school room. And in any case, working in the ghetto more and more means working with it or not working...
...last Ed School postulate deals with overall commitment. It warns, briefly, that over-commitment inhibits perspective. There are lots of educational problems which will reach crisis proportions if not tackled now. The academic should keep his options open and take the long view...
...cool stewardess did read the New York Times, she probably still wouldn't know what was happening. If they had given up demonstrating, they would be publicly admitting their own guilt and they would have lost their chance to force the Times to report the story from a different view-point. They would do so only if the students succeeded in forcing the administration to meet their demands and in winning the support of the respectable Columbia faculty...
...silences-thus forcing everyone to share the same formative dreams." That is probably an exaggeration, suggesting that, like Disney himself, Schickel romanticizes the. good old days, and sentimentalizes the nature of childhood as well. Schickel argues that Disney could not have been an artist because his simplified view of reality narrowed rather than expanded consciousness. Yet time and again he somehow feels the need to hold Disney up as an artist-only to wind up proving that he wasn't. It is usually done in a tone of deep disappointment...