Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conant's proposals. Both at the beginning and the end of the book he makes pious reference to public opinion and the importance of gathering informed laymen's views on teacher education. The program he designs, however, would take little note of these views; by removing extensive state super-vision of teacher training it seeks not to increase public participation, but to widen professional control to include academic faculties. This aim is unrealistic. The ultimate effect of making institutions as a whole responsible for teacher training is to increase the accountability to the public, whether by statute or custom. Before...
...well that neither Erhard nor Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder shares his ideas about foreign policy. In "the Erhard era," Bonn will presumably use its influence to strengthen the Atlantic Alliance and bring Britain into the Common Market. The new Chancellor seems determined to resist Charles de Gaulle's vision of an exclusive, inward-looking Europe dominated by France, and to reject France's proffered membership in an independent European deterrent based on De Gaulle's force de dissuasion. But even as Adenauer's desk was being carted out of the Chancellor's office...
...beautiful, unbelievable passer; he's a scrambler and has great split vision; he can run, and that makes it impossible to defend against him and he's a tremendous inspirational leader...
...stopped the car and looked the building over, not with the eye of a professional architect, but of a person who takes an interest in his surroundings. The building appeared to me a very good one indeed. It was exciting, full of movement, possessed vitality and reflected not the vision of Christopher Wren or Thomas Jefferson but of our own time and our own temper. At that point I did not know the name of the architect or even the name or function served by the building, I stopped two undergraduates and inquired what the building was used for. They...
...sense the spirit that led to Sert's creation, to look at the building with clear eyes as a man living in this time and this place, and to imagine how he might try to express the vitality, life, and peculiar spirit of our community. Wouldn't the vision come closer to Sert's product? The less creative alternate is to rant and rage endlessly, in darkness and without understanding. Stanley Milgram Assistant Professor of Social Psychology