Word: longrun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other. All things given, as an institution's national power increases its demand for cultural specificity decreases. No doubt this dynamic of Americanization or American institutional democratization--if I can call it such--is never perfect at any given point in time: it is always an approximation of a longrun norm or ideal, exhibiting much cultural...
...given cultural lag is not the decisive feature of the total situation, though in the eyes of the new ethnic militants who insist on a maddening juxtaposition of the past-and-present it appears so. Anyway some cultural lag is functional to the longrun process of Americanization and should not be condemned. I have no doubt that Memorial Church--which Rabbi Gold mistakenly perceives as standing "in the heart of this university"--is one such cultural lag. After all, no small part of the national support (financial and otherwise) which sustains Harvard University is connected to this symbol of Harvard...
...more flexible American attitude was enunciated by Patricia Hutar, co-leader of the U.S. delegation, in a position paper acknowledging that the "longrun goal" of equality and development "implies for us, as no doubt for others, modifications in many existing economic and social structures...