Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Looked at in the larger perspective, such criticism reflects an issue which affects American higher education in its entirety. That issue is the conflict between the traditional ideal of the university as an island of disinterested scholarship, a community of scholars devoted solely to the search for Truth, and the purpose of the modern American university, the brain trust of the government and incubator for the Establishment...
Whether the former ideal was ever realized by any American university is doubtful, but it would be foolish to say that the college experience does not afford the individual a means of finding and developing his true self. The pursuit of knowledge can be for a certain individual a search for the truth of human experience as it pertains to himself. The acquisition ofknowledge, no matter how trivial, or "non-functional" it may appear, influences in varied and often subtle ways the development of the human personality...
...Bunting has suggested that there be some form of women's organization for all the undergraduates, an expanded Radcliffe Union of Students. RUS may not be the ideal group for this function, but it also might be revitalized by having a distinct function within the community...
...PROJECT '70 Exhibition features designs and crazy schemes dedicated to the un-American ideal that cities should be full of good things to look at and play with. Not an assembly of finished works, the exhibit includes plans and models designers have made in the six months since Project '70 was first organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Final, full-scale projects should be sprouting all over Boston by December...
Divorced from his own wife as from the world, Andreas spends most of his days with Anna (Liv Ullman), whose husband and son have recently perished in a grisly auto accident. She insists that her marriage was ideal; actually it was calamitous. She claims to feel love emanating from Andreas; in fact he has no conception of the term. In Rollo May's phrase, "Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is." Love's opposite is all that Andreas can summon...