Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...another statement spelling out his views on school integration. Nixon met with 35 black officials last week, seeking guidance on the shape of a major public pronouncement. In the light of Presidential Aide Daniel Patrick Moynihan's recent call for a period of "benign neglect" on race (see ESSAY), such a statement is needed...
...favorite devices of intellectual journals is to collect a number of articles or essays on the same topic from a group of well known scholars, and bind them all together with a general introduction. The result is called a "symposium." and usually consists of 20 or so vague essays all saying the same thing about one general topic. The viewpoint expressed in the articles will be the accepted moderate-liberal position, with perhaps one ?? and one conservative thrown in for balance D?? the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is often guilty of this sort of thing...
...RADICAL perspective of the next essay contradicts Trow's argument. Jill Conway, a young historian at the University of Toronto, thinks that the problem is a basic misapprehension of the social function of the university in America. Miss Conway maintains that the young radicals have correctly understood what the political function of the university is in this country. The university exists to create a professional elite, and it is the irresponsibility of that elite in isolating itself from the basic human problems of the oppressed while participating in industrial and defensive research which has caused the crisis of the university...
...chosen to indulge in theatric, rather than in a systematic critique of the university, and that certain of the administrators represented here have written in vague generalities more appropriate to a president's annual report or the position paper of a Senate candidate than to a serious scholar's essay. Both public and private universities are represented and each undergoes a searching critique. The university must certainly follow one or another of the paths suggested for it in this journal...
Although requests are sparked by many different sections, one of the greatest catalysts is the Essay. "On Being an American Parent" (Dec. 15, 1967) drew requests for 5,000 reprints from church and P.T.A. groups. The Alumni Association of Columbia College alone asked for 25,000 reprints of "Why Those Students Are Protesting" (May 3, 1968). "What Can I Do?" (May 17, 1968), on the problem of civil rights, drew requests for 35,000 copies. Our cover story on "Drugs and the Young" (Sept. 26, 1969) has so far brought requests for 3,000 copies. But perhaps our most unusual...