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...administration, might do a remarkable job of choosing instructors for the program, deciding on the value of seminars for Gen Ed exemption, and judging closeness of their alignment with the rest of the curriculum. It is not enough to know that some splendid teaching has emerged from the drifting, mindless expansion of the Freshman Seminars: the College must see to it that its program finally has a policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gen Ed and the Freshman Seminars | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

Chronicles of society always run the same risk. To be successful they must contain a wealth of imaginative surface detail; otherwise the fundamental emptiness of high society--its weary monotony and mindless glitter--loom oppressively. Nilsson fails to achieve any sort of dash or verve; he also cheats us by pretending to human insights where there are none...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: Summerskin | 10/18/1962 | See Source »

Promises & Formulas. Treyz had exploited only what comes naturally to television-the appeal to a mindless mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Rub-Out | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

...figure out the logic behind the position is, however, difficult. In a column on the subject, Walter Lippmann gave up: he concluded that, in their stand on the Urban Affairs Department, the Republican had simply made a mistake. Indeed, there is something mindless (or at least, unreflecting) about their choice of a position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Congress: The Same Old Saw | 2/6/1962 | See Source »

Speaker McCormack sounds like a typical, mindless, party-hack Democrat with blind loyalty to party machinery, just like Harry Truman. It is fascinating to contemplate, isn't it, how different our situation might be if Truman's haberdashery shop in Kansas City hadn't folded, and if the Massachusetts legislature had been more prompt in passing the law requiring two years of high school for those admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1962 | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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