Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seen in a different light by the time one is a junior or senior. Of course, a student proctor's purpose wouldn't be to take advisees on his knee and tell them what it's important to worry about while at Harvard--few seniors are infinite in their wisdom anyway. But a different perspective is valuable, and hopefully an upperclassman adviser could supply...
...proposed changes in the History Department's tutorial program are a refreshing contrast to the conventional wisdom's stereotype of inflexible, tradition-encrusted large departments. The recent meeting of the Department's Board of Tutors has shown that History is willing to think critically about existing programs and to make changes that will improve the quality of undergraduate education...
...children have become a rarity. Paternal authority, long on the wane, is being undermined further. What the doctrines of Freud failed to do to father-and Freud himself is now old hat among the young-the knowledge explosion accomplished. After all, it is difficult to remain the fount of wisdom while the junior members of the family discourse expertly on the new physics. There is little force left in family rulings as to what careers to choose or where to go to school. For that matter, not going to college at all for a year or two-working instead...
...huge original; but what matters more is that here for the first time the author accommodates in a single opus all the dominant elements of his life and art: satire, language, religion, sense of tradition, instinct for milieu. The consummation is a social history of the war that in wisdom and spaciousness and easy irony rivals and resembles the work of Trollope...
...whose name many have been tortured and killed is dead. The God who serves as the father figure watching over man is dead. The multiple Gods, representing the multiple religions with their multiple distorted views, are dead. Let secular evolutionary humanism with its love and faith in man, his wisdom and courage, be born and live...