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Barefoot Doctors. Despite the infighting, China's planners have reached a consensus on one "great strategic plan." It is a blueprint for comprehensive reform designed to change social, economic and educational life for decades to come. Though the long-term goal remains industrialization, the plan calls for an initial revitalization of rural life by moving urban industries and vast numbers of people to the countryside...
Campus confrontation isolated students from the rest of the country, and by its manipulative method alienated a mass of students from what was seen as a radical elite. The alternative, building a mass base of support, was agonizingly slow. Do you sink to the lowest common denominator of consensus in building a base of support? If not, how long can you spend developing support for a radical objective? Partly because the life of a student is only four years and partly because of adventurism, impatient radicals without a mass base of support eagerly chose confrontations. Building seizures were effective radicalizing...
...consensus of the offensive unit seems to be that they would prefer to go with one quarterback to the end. There is not as much agreement as to which quarterback it should be, but Foster has been most effective in the clutch. The quarterbacks themselves are fed up with the whole situation...
Much of Hofstadter's innovation has become so widely accepted and hence commonplace that it is easy to forget his contribution. It was he who in the American Political Tradition gave a more sophisticated interpretion than mere economic determinism or class struggle to American politics. There had been more consensus than conflict, he pointed out. To right-wing Republicans trying to pin the red label on the heirs of Franklin D. Roosevelt, this interpretation gave no comfort...
Professor Hoffmann's plea for a "well-conceived new design" in undergraduate education at Harvard strikes me as very reasonable and bold- and impracticable. To expect the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to legislate a new and universally applied conception of undergraduate education is to expect a miraculous consensus to overcome the Faculty in 1970 when there is no precedent for it. In fact, the only precedents for a radical change in educational theory and practice that Harvard College has ever seen have come when strong-willed presidents sought to institute reforms. Within the last few decades, when the Faculty...