Word: mindset
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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There are ethnic studies organizations here--Asian-American studies, Latino studies, Afro-American studies--and I have some contact with each of them and have not encountered a McCarthyite-type mindset among them. Nor am I aware of any such unacceptable posture among women's groups here that favor women's studies...
Metropolitan thoughtfully treats the the (at best) self-conscious and (at worst) self-absorbed mindset of the preppy class. The characters are not the flat stereotypes who populate bad teen films, but realistic characters with a painful sense of the past and their responsibility to it. They discuss French social theorists and Jane Austen, changing social mores and downward socially mobility. They still fancy virginity as something virtuous, and date in groups...
Some of us may be addicted to applying for things. Maybe we think a department that will accept us, no questions asked, is no good. Honors concentrations play on this mindset by making it part of their appeal...
Tutu's announcement reflected more than mereoptimism about Harvard's mindset--it alsoreflected optimism about the changing situation inSouth Africa...