Word: academia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...layman in an academic setting is free to provide certain shock values. "He has no reason to hide his astonishment," afford the easy steadfastness of one who does not want or need anything from an institution, least of all those terrifying velvet handcuffs known as tenure." The layman in academia can avoid faculty status ladders and protocol. He remains free to experiment and innovate...
...thinking, and perhaps of prejudgment. When a foundation has supported a study of demilitarization for ten years, its Director is bound to develop a vested interest in producing positive findings. This is the curse of philanthropy--objectivity is harder to come by in big foundations than it is in academia...
...less important to the success of No Hard Feelingsare the talents of song-writers Irwin Carson and Mike Tschudin and lyricist Timothy Mayer. Most numbers have a pleasing if eclectic sound and all are literate and clever. A trio of songs in the first act-"Lingua Academia," "You Made My Conscience Expand," and the title song--are exceptional. And the rousing preintermission finale, "Forbidden Frug," rocks the club house as that other House must have been shaken by the antics of America's favorite teen-ager...
Secondly, there are sound reasons to doubt the efficacy of any institutional remedy for the problem of over-emphasis on academic values. For if Riesman's analysis is correct origins of the focus on academia are to be found in a basic transformation of American culture. Tampering with admissions or with the House dining halls would have little effect on so fundamental a process...
...still far from overbearing. It has been produced instead by changes in American-society--principally, its increasing democratization--and by changes in American values--especially, the veneration of the expert. There has also been a vast expansion of what academic includes. More men then ever are crowding into academia, but the wall between the academy and the world is dissolving