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Strasser now dabbles in industrial design and ultimately, he says, he "will ! probably turn into an architect." His extraordinary aesthetic and worldly success is, of course, a function of his talent and intelligence. But it is also, he believes, a product of Texas laissez-faire can-doism. "I'm clearly a Texan," he says. "I hate committees, I love the Texas freedom of spirit -- the renegade, what-the-hell, we're-gonna-do-it-our-way attitude." Strasser admits, however, that it was only in the past year, when a wider world recognized his elegant embodiment of that spirit, that...
...cast of characters is larger, the moral positions less clear-cut, the progress not always forward. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers move their desegregation campaign to Northern cities like Chicago, but with mixed success. Black Panther leaders like Huey Newton and Bobby Seale sound as threatening as the white racists they oppose. Riots break out in Watts, Detroit, and Attica prison. Meanwhile, the nation undergoes a virtual revolution of race consciousness. Negroes are transformed into blacks, Afro hairstyles become a political statement, and the rise of a sassy young heavyweight named Cassius Clay has reverberations...
Although the program was a success--24 of the 36 fellows have received lifetime poistions and seven more are tenure-track--officials say they had to discontinue the program in 1986 because of financial reasons. According to McKinsey, the initial program was slated to run only 10 years and "Carnegie's priorities shifted...
Educational success starts at home; it starts with the vision of the good life that parents impart to their children. Only when a child understands early on that the good life is impossible without stretching one's mind and pursuing knowledge to the fullest extent of one's abilities--only then will our country have a chance to remain a leading political, cultural and economic force of the next century...
Moreover, there is no necessary connection between striving for knowledge and being a social misfit. In many cultures where intellect is valued more highly than it is here, academic achievement and social success go hand in hand...