Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living legend, including consent to an interview. He fears that interviewers would be mainly concerned with odd experiences that he has had during his career as a proctor, and stories about funny things that happen in exams ignore what is really humorous about them. "I am the comic element in these exams," he explains. Some day he will reveal all, Edwards says, but in the meantime, he wants to remain an enigma...
...sees the counsel of experts as of dubious value. He feels that the decline of the family is the inevitable concomitant of the changing economic and social system, and so reserves judgment on the remporary advantages that might be offered by the invasion of experts. But the most controversial element of Lasch's argument involves his questioning of the motives of the so-called helping professionals...
EVEN IF MINORITY RECRUITMENT is only a secondary responsibility for most staff members and alums who do admissions work, one element of the recruitment effort--the student recruitment office--exists entirely for the purpose of minority recruitment...
...valuable contribution to minority recruitment, Young says the overall attitude in the office toward the student recruiters is quite negative. "Every time the key to the Xerox machine disappears, somebody says Those damn students."' This problem is only in part due to the students' performance, Young adds. Another important element is the current political climate with respect to minority rights. "These are very hostile times," he says. "People are seeing blacks under every...
...feels that the most insidious element of the "New Orientalism" is not the superficial chaos worsened by public outcries of brain-washing and sloganeering, but the underlying Americanization of imported Eastern faiths. Acclimation (to a certain degree) is inevitable in the spread of a religion. Few observers, however, have stressed enough that, as Cox would say, "when the gods migrate, or are transported, to a civilization where everything is to some extent a commodity, they become commodities too." The danger here lies in the potential reduction of these new faiths to products of a "profit-oriented culture" such...