Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, they find a Harvard College which appears to have in no way significantly departed from the Ivory Tower of the past. Only instead of an Ivory Tower, the university's protective wall is called "value-freedom." "Technology," Harvard's President explains, "cannot be used to support an opinion." Hence television is not used to broadcast a recent Vietnam teach-in. (How the dissemination of opinions differs from the dissemination of information is left unexplained, unless one assumes that the teach-in was totally devoid of any information whatsoever.) The renunciation of social obligation is the same; the harm wreaked...
...impediment. Total naivete is worse, however. Some students start working from voyeuristic interest, but that quickly drops out. Adequate supervision stops that. I'm talking about the kind of person who feels that if this patient could only realize it's silly to keep banging his head against the wall, he'd stop. We had had some like that, and they do pose a major problem, but eventually, through group pressure, they are ready to become case-aide workers...
...sixth increase in seven months. Total personal income inched up to an alltime record, a seasonally adjusted annual level of $651.2 billion. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, fell to 3.5% in January, its lowest level in 14 years. Equally buoyant are the latest corporate-earnings reports. Surveying 581 companies, the Wall Street Journal found that their total profits during 1967's fourth quarter had increased 5.2% over a year earlier...
Predictably, Wall Street's leading investment educator is its biggest firm, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., whose representatives last year made 6,524 appearances before 215,798 people-a 33% increase over 1966. Audiences range from corporation employees to social-club gatherings. This spring, vacationers aboard Grace Line's Caribbean cruise ships will find a Merrill Lynch lecturer on hand. The firm's representatives work with department stores to give women a combination stock market education and fashion show; one of the gimmicks used is a dress made of material with a stock-certificate pattern...
While women, who control about 51% of all stock outstanding, appear to be the most prized pupils, the Wall Street educators seem ready to teach a course to practically anyone. A Bache & Co. representative not too long ago gave a series of three lectures on closed-circuit TV to the inmates at the state prison in Jackson, Mich...