Word: welling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...termed the problem of two cultures in our society--the gap in understanding between the traditional humanities and social sciences on the one hand and modern science and technology on the other. Both exist side by side, yet remain intellectually divorced in our modern society. This dichotomy serves well in considering the difficulties surrounding the discipline of economics, for its midway position in such a scheme is indicative of its problems...
...core program in the Department. There is, in fact, almost one already. Ec. 141--Money and Banking, Ec. 161--Industrial Organization, and Ec. 181--Industrial Relations, cover the major areas of the field and at least two of them are necessary to handle Generals well. A real core program where all concentrators would progress from one level of the next has many advantages; it provides a common background which the lecturer can assume, gives a common training, and insures that a student will not neglect a vital aspect of the field. But it also has disadvantages, the primary one being...
...techniques and an undergraduate approach, intensifies the problem that confronts many other departments in the College--that of withstanding the polar attractions of pre-professional orientation or of superficiality. Concerning the middle course group area, Dunlop's committee has only just begun its discussions, but the major alternatives are well known...
There is little question of the importance of economics today, with its strategic position between the technological productive system and the literary tradition of the social sciences, and with its unique combination of the empirical and theoretical. It remains only to be taught well...
Though the cutting could be better in places, "Mark Twain Tonight" is well worth seeing. Holbrook does a convincing job of acting, talking and looking like Twain, and he manages to present a fairly accurate picture of Twain's often bitter outlook and yet preserve a genuinely funny show...