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...outer" refers to a person who over the span of his career will spend time both in government--in law or academia, for instance--perhaps in several cycles. This kind of mobility of people happens for a variety of reasons and serves various purposes. But the Institute of Politics is the only educational institution I know of which was established with the explicit goal of serving the interests and needs of these people who want to work in more than one realm, for more than one institution, who desire engagement in public service and the "political life" across vocational demarcation...
...success at Delaware converted one fort of academia, increased the stature of Mrs. Wood as a reading instructor, and added legitimacy to the concept of Reading Dynamics. But it had little effect on the majority of reading scholars. Some, however, recognized a real potential at least for some scholars. One nationally-known scholar formerly of the traditional school of reading recently remarked, "I have a growing suspicion that this is a different way of reading. It is devolving a capacity to use multiple as well as sequential channel functions. It is a creative process, something like the dream process, rather...
Such translocutions certainly will never occur if the country's reading "Establishment" has anything to do with it. Composed of reading scholars strategically based in colleges around the country, this fortress of academia has refused to give sanction to the Wood method. Most of these experts have devoted their lives to problems of reading efficiency, not reading speed. The conventional wisdom has proved, scientifically, that it is humanly impossible to read more than 900 words per minute...
Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology, and Gerald Platt, lecturer on Sociology, are conducting an analysis of the academic professions in America, which, according to Platt, should "dispell the misconception of what academia...
...point Four, the letter asks an absurdly rhetorical question which, as far as I can see, has nothing whatever to do with any point made in the article. The "too much academia" and "just more college" complaints were voiced to me by students at the Wilson School, and were so attributed. As for the mention of one long reading list, I cannot see how this could be interpreted as an argument on my part for anything...