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...would be fair to say that Gen Ed achieved its greatest impetus at Harvard. General Education in a Free Society, the report of a Harvard Faculty Committee set up to investigate the problem in 1945, became the paradigm for the re-evaluation of educational programs in high schools and colleges all over the country. The report, popularly known as the Redbook, was drawn up by a group of the finest minds in the country, including historian Paul Buck, classicist John Finley, biologist George Wald, poet I. A. Richards, former Radcliffe president W. K. Jordan, and the senior Arthur Schlesinger...
...Volkswagen van from Russell Hinman, who operates a Texaco service station in Westville, NJ. Though Hinman made the $400 sale on his own as an individual, Gizzi claimed that Texaco's advertising led him to believe that it stood behind the sale. Besides, Hinman seemed to be the paradigm of skill that Texaco proudly refers to in its slogan, "Trust your car to the man who wears the Texaco star...
Have we here a paradigm for Broadway success? I think...
...social sciences, we are taught to distinguish and use the various constructs men have super-imposed on macroscopic human relations. We are asked to imitate and admire successful paradigm-makers. Fun? Yes, but no finite construct has or can adequately describe let alone explain any large sum of human activity...
...deplores wiretapping, which Attorney General John Mitchell has sharply expanded, as a license for political harassment and an invasion of privacy. But he also presents it as a paradigm of police inefficiency. It may take 20 men to install one tap, often by breaking and entering the suspect's home, plus as many as six more men to monitor the tap, often for months and months in which they could be gathering solid evidence instead of recording mostly innocent chatter. Clark's Justice Department shunned bugging-but in 1968 somehow managed to indict 1,166 figures from organized...