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Vernon Grounds, former president of the Denver Theological Seminary, told a Saturday afternoon audience that although he is a leading--and longstanding--evangelical Christian, he is distressed by "evangelicalism's unconcern with regard for peacemaking...
Administration figures claim that educational reforms in general and the Core Curriculum in particular refute any charges of unconcern for undergraduates. However, the Core must be seen in perspective. It has emerged as only one in a long series of reforms stretching back at least to President Lowell's inclusion of curricular electives, and President Conant's Redbook which fostered General Education. As the reformers of every era drop out of sight, dramatic moves are necessary to remind those who remain of their responsibilities towards undergraduates. The content of reform matters less than the more fact that reform occurs...
...actions themselves as much as Harvard's unconcern about them that upset many Cambridge politicians. "It's just two more examples of Harvard's belief that it is above the law," City Council candidate David Sullivan said last week. "Just because Harvard is the biggest boy on the block doesn't mean they're not the bully," he added...
...supremacy of anarchy and annihilation was discerned by Dostoyevsky when he wrote that if God does not exist, everything is permitted. Doctorow simply secularizes that prophecy into supine universal unconcern, ecological devastation and the nuclear holocaust...
...White House. To the public at large as well as to economists and businessmen, the contradictions appear to mirror an equally mixed-up management of the economy by the Carter Administration. Policy zigged from talking up a tough tax reform to abandoning most of it, zagged from professing unconcern about the dollar's slide to intervening actively in currency markets to prop up the greenback. Noting Carter's propensity for listening first to one economic adviser, then to another, Washington wits began quoting, accurately or not, a scathing description of Franklin Roosevelt supposedly offered by Economist John Maynard Keynes...