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Most of the report is devoted to the idea of professional education for public service. What is needed, Bok says, "is nothing less than the education of a new profession," whose students "will share the common experience of holding important positions of responsibility involving policy making and administration." Probably the worst thing about the report is the reason Bok cites for instituting this plan. On the most superficial level. Bok refers to the loss of public confidence in the government because of the "divisive" issues of Vietnam, the "spectacle" of Watergate, and the failures of major federal programs such...
Then purposefully ignoring their political causes. Bok attempts to explain these failures as a result--at least in part--of big government arising out of the New Deal, which in turn has created several administrative problems in government. It is not only the general trend in government that necessitates this...
But Bok never makes clear what exactly the "opportunity" is in creating this "new profession"--it would seem that the real opportunity for the University in its present financial state would be to get more government funding. But even assuming that grabbing this "opportunity" is motivated by the disinterested search...
Dr. William A. Nolen, author of The Making of a Surgeon (1970), is hardly the first member of his profession to debunk faith healing, but he is the first to write open-mindedly about metaphysical medicine. He became so imbued with investigatory zeal that he subjected himself to a "psychic...
At the end of a hitch on a Navy cargo ship, Rogers dropped in on a college friend who was directing a workshop production of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. "I thought, 'Here's a profession in which a) you must use your...