Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anarchism is likely to applaud. But he is dealing with only the next 20 years of American life, and, he observes accurately, it is not realistic "to expect that the American people will decide to transform capitalism during that period." To get something done, one must "locate a radical program midway between immediate feasibility and ultimate Utopia." He has little patience with calls for instant destruction of the existing order: "A hazy apocalypse is no substitute for an inadequate liberalism...
Traditional Optimism. Harrington's point of departure is the 1964 election and the legislation that followed from it in 1965, which at long last completed the program of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. "Everyone except the Neanderthals agreed on Federal management of the economy, the goal of full employment, Medicare, formal legal equality for Negroes and, above all, economic growth." As a result, traditional American liberalism lost its innovative thrust, argues Harrington, and is unable to cope with the persisting problems of poverty, urban blight, inadequate education and racial hostility. To Harrington, nothing is more dangerous than...
This is the first year in which the Institute has made such awards. According to Ernest R. May, professor of History and chairman of the Institute's Student Program, they are experiments "to see if we can help students to bring some non-academic experience to bear on their theses...
...international attention. The editors of Nature cited his scientific promise and the crucial nature of his work in a rare burst of praise in the May, 1967, issue. Born in Crete, he came to America immediately after high school and enrolled at Cornell University. He finished the four year program in three years, graduating first in a class of 100 with high honors in Zoology...
KAFATOS' FIRST major research project at Harvard, performed while a graduate student, was an investigation of how a moth escapes from its cocoon. The Elementary Science Study program has published an account of the way he found "How a Moth Escapes from its Cocoon." It will be used in elementary schools in September. In the pamphlet's preface, Kafatos states that science courses should not teach only the well-ordered results of research but also the daily progress of research, but also the daily progress of research, including the disappointments as well as the illuminations. He claims this would encourages...