Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These 102 well-scrubbed and polite high school seniors, bused from Washington's National Airport, with their electric combs, three-piece suits, and dresses, triumphed over 350,000 classmates who entered this year's N.A.S.S.P. scholarship competition, a program called Century III Leaders. They are student-government presidents, church youth leaders, honor-society members. They were judged on their knowledge of current events, school grades and written proposals for solving public problems. Each of them received a $1,500 scholarship plus the free trip to Williamsburg. At the end of this two-day conference, funded by the Shell...
...lanky Dan Voll of Illinois, who raised $7,000 to fight alcoholism in Rockford, writes youth editorials for the local TV station and presides over his student government. His father works full time for the Boy Scouts of America. With five brothers and sisters, Dan needs the $10,000 scholarship very much. After a standing ovation, he closes his acceptance speech by saying, "If there's a word that sums up what Dan Voll is all about, it's 'positiveness...
...about one third of the total number. The faculty also includes men and women with training in planning, geography, law, public policy, political science, English, sociology, engineering, public administration, education, business, and social ethics. Regardless of their disciplinary background, moreover, faculty have made meaningful contributions to planning practice and scholarship...
...indeed of tremendous literary significance or that Margaret Walker's fusion of history and literature poses some rather interesting questions of epistemological significance, one is told that he/she is not a serious scholar and that even the most pedantic and empty scholasticism is superior to that of Afro-American scholarship if it deals with anything other than the Afro-American experience...
...Soviet propaganda apparatus has been working overtime to indict the Chinese. Peking's rulers have been accused of everything from planning germ warfare to running the world narcotics trade to assassinating President Kennedy. The polemical tone carries over from the popular press into the theoretical world of scholarship. One recent monograph printed by the Institute of the Far East of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (there is a similar institute devoted to American studies) is called Destinies of Culture in the People's Republic of China. It makes the charge that Peking views the arts as "an ideological...