Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world--through the goods we buy, the taxes we pay, the services we use, the investments we make," he is teaching us to have what Lawrence Goodwyn, professor of history at Duke, called "grace in the face of corruption." Bok has told us that there must be an unavoidable conflict between what we believe and what we do. At the deepest level, our President has counseled despair...
...been a pervasive impact of quantitative forms of reasoning. So the second one is the emphasis on foreign cultures, which again I think reflects the fact that as late as World War II, when the Gen Ed program was introduced, we saw ourselves only temporarily involved in an international conflict, and it wasn't until later that we saw that we were going to be increasingly and permanently involved in a more and more interdependent series of countries that made an emphasis in the Core Curriculum along these lines more necessary...
...fiction section sparked angry debate from both students and staff. Marius said he cancelled the section because he is "not convinced that students in fiction know how to write an expository essay." But Diana Thomson, a fiction teacher, said Marius cancelled the program because of personal and philosophical conflict between...
...degree program. Soon the APA clarified its position--they just needed more information, and Harvard officials expect to pass despite APA's initial disapproval. But the APA's initial criticisms of the department's emphasis on economics at the expense of a traditional planning curriculum highlights the basic conflict inside and outside of the department...
...Class conflict makes for good fiction, and in Elkin's novels the great social leveler is death. "Of course I'm obsessed with death," he admits. "The first words of my first book were 'Everybody dies.' But I'm also obsessed with death's alternative, which is life...