Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...implicitly denying that students have a valid perspective on their own educations. The Faculty created the Core Curriculum to replace the flawed and misdirected General Education program. As students under Gen Ed's sway, present undergraduates have a unique outlook on the program. They are well qualified to suggest ways in which the Faculty might best avoid repeating these mistakes...
Next year the committee must produce yet another slate of Core courses. This time, they should encourage meaningful student involvement, perhaps through concentrators' committees. These departmental panels could evaluate Core courses in their field and suggest new courses. Pfeffer said these "little research groups" could assist and fill in the gaps in the Faculty subcommittee's work...
...elegant literary style). Unfortunately, his basic thesis, no matter how well phrased, seems to gloss over a complicated issue because he "proves" it with hastily explained historical examples. Although Galbraith's own experiences in government as an ambassador to India add richness to the book, many of his examples suggest counter examples, or at least cry out for more development. The solutions he suggests for mass poverty are unconvincing in places, partly because of the unconventionality of the ideas he throws out in a mere 140 pages, and partly because it is impossible to make blanket statements for all underdeveloped...
Prize Stories 1979: The O. Henry Awards contains no such surprises. It is a solid, predictable gathering with one interesting sociological twist. Most of the stories are about failing marriages. Three reasons suggest themselves: more writers are writing about what they know, and what they know is failing marriages; the subject is particularly appealing to the editor; or both...
McCloskey's own bill, which suggests formation of a "national service" of young people, reveals the underlying philosophical contradiction in the current debate. McCloskey describes his bill--impelling a choice between active military service, one year of civilian service or inclusion in a lottery in case of war--as an "alternative" to proposals that only suggest reinstitution of draft registration. "We are sorely in need of a system of military recruitment that can provide essential manpower," says the man who challenged Richard Nixon for the Presidency in 1972 on the basis of the Indochina debacle. "At the same time...