Word: reflexivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secrecy is not accidental, nor is it just a gut reflex of the administration. It's good legal protection for Harvard. By withholding information about the risks of living on campus, the University can prevent lawsuits from students, staff and faculty. If students do develop health conditions 10 years down the road, they won't even think of blaming Harvard...
...that protest lost sight of its real concerns and spurred a counter-culture which seemed rooted more in self-interest than in moralistic opposition to U.S. policy. But today's protesters have no rationale for their anti-war rhetoric--they respond to any movement of troops simply by reflex. Their protests are short-sighted and illinformed. Just how much so can be seen in their rhetoric...
Americans initially greet almost any military mission by rallying around the President and the flag. It is almost an involuntary reflex. That was even true of Vietnam. "That's usually the way it is at the beginning of these affairs," Dean Rusk, 81, says with a philosophical wariness. As Secretary of State during the Johnson Administration, Rusk watched the radical turning of ; public opinion against the war in Southeast Asia. "If this ((conflict in the gulf)) drags on," Rusk says, and if there are American casualties, "things may change...
...best place to battle willful ignorance and bigotry, of course, is in the classroom. Teaching that strengthens reason over reflex, curiosity over insularity may help improve students' behavior outside the classroom as well. Though the changes are often controversial, many colleges have revised their curricula to include courses in non-Western cultures and values. Fewer and fewer of the history and literature surveys focus exclusively on the West European heritage. "The curriculum has been radically realigned," says Carnegie Foundation president Ernest Boyer. "Minorities have insisted on it, women have insisted on it, and frankly it's made universities dramatically better...
...right as "one of our own," is that of Nixon with Eisenhower -- bridge to the right, voice of the right, pacifier of the right. In the latter role he has already been criticized by the National Review and conservative columnist Eric Breindel. It is a high-risk position, since reflex anticommunism is not the right-wing glue it was before Mikhail Gorbachev. Quayle has treated changes in the Soviet Union as suspect, while saying he does not differ from the President (the refrain against which all Vice Presidents must play their own tunes). Quayle is loyal to individuals...