Word: impressionism
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"When I came to Harvard in '58, what [made an impression] for me about social life was how anti-Semitic it was," Epps says.
And thus in the shadows of the senior gift this program creates an impression that the College is embarrassed of one of its most potentially productive pump-priming methods.
"That comparison will always take place," Zinn says, "[but] it should be resisted. Take the high point of any history and then...try to measure everything against it and it will always seem too low. I don't think it makes sense to do that. It creates the wrong impression...
Zinn says holding today's activists to the standard of the '60s can create the wrong impression--that students today are more apathetic than their predecessors.
A Lasting Impression