Word: webers
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...shared sense of the past plays a pivotal role in the way values and vision are transmitted from one generation to the next. "History is part of a society's attempt to structure a self-image and to communicate a common identity," points out Eugen Weber, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. "No community can exist as a community without common references. In a modern nation they come from a history...
...WEBER warned of robotic bureaucrats who do nothing more than administer the law without feeling, perpetuating their positions without effecting change...
...Kloske and Schwarzkopf cases indicate that Americans need not fear bureaucracy as much as Weber did. Disagreements between officials indicate that they do care about the correctness of the regulations they administer. Public debate shows that bureaucracy is a living organism rather than a monolithic, thoughtless machine...
...Brown, Weber and colleague Tracy Brooks havebeen performing their show around the country,travelling in a van with the two wolves. The closequarters, they say, can often be unnerving...
...Weber and Brooks led the two wolves around theclassroom to meet the spectators. "They love topull gum off from under desks," Brown said as Silanuzzled a lecturn in Sever...