Word: weaverization
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...Students on a part-time basis cannot hold communities together. There has to be a transfer of control," Claude Weaver '65, a SNCC worker, said yesterday...
...light of the Cahns' observations, Robert Weaver's summary of the federal government's efforts to "shape" the "Spread City" reads like a General's account of the progress of the war. Stating that the government's goal is to prevent waste and disorder," Weaver enumerates uncritically federal programs to aid cities, and calls for "better organization of urban governments." He is, of course, selling the program which he heads, and he confines his generalization to purposes rather than effects, which is always safer ground...
...circle of experts trapped in the revolving door of uncommunication, and clarifies why they are likely to stay there awhile. Beginning with an exclamation that "just doesn't make sense," Goodman neither accepts the process as inevitable as does Bell, nor resolves to influence its course as does Weaver; instead he sets about looking for ways to reverse it. Living in congested areas, he says, makes people confused. Motivated by a mixture of good intentions, vigorous imagination, and economic ignorance, Goodman hits upon a program of boarding-out slum children to farms, that will alleviate congestion and simultaneously...
Peter Orris '67, Morton P. Thomas '66, Claude L. Weaver '65, and Robert E. Wright '65 related incidents of discrimination, harassment, threats, and beatings incurred during their experience as civil rights workers in Mississippi...
...earlier generations believed that there were many ways to get ahead, today's teen-agers think that schooling is perhaps the only way to success. "The educational period which was once tentative and experimental," notes Anthropologist Mead, "is now quite as directly functional as the life of a weaver's apprentice during the Middle Ages." The resulting "college education syndrome" puts immense pressures on teenagers. Some kids occasionally rise at 3 a.m. to study-one Washington mother has to forbid her girls to get up before 6. And so eager are kids to find colleges that when...