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Vocational education has always suffered from an inferiority complex-a product, perhaps, of the "golden streets" myth that made 19th century immigrants feel that a trade was vaguely unAmerican. The fact is that modern technology has done away with many of the most menial tasks and thereby created millions of jobs for such skilled workers as laboratory technicians, draftsmen and electronics specialists. In the most specialized fields, blue-collar workers actually earn more than their white-collar counterparts. Yet once a student forgoes college hopes to enter a vocational program, he runs the risk of fading into instant obsolescence...
...honest answer to his plight-for equality status. Why? Simply because being an American has come to signify to him what it does for the rest of us-the dignity of the individual. It is those who would deprive him of this heritage who are totally irresponsible and utterly unAmerican...
Pifer aired his views before a group largely resistant to that kind of future: the Association of American Colleges, whose 888 members include 730 of the nation's private schools. He conceded that, to many educators, talk of federal dominance in funding and planning sounds like "unAmerican, unconstitutional, and dangerous nonsense." And he agreed that the freedom of private institutions has provided much of the dynamism of higher education. But he also warned his audience of college executives that the nation "can no longer afford the luxury of an unplanned, wasteful, chaotic approach" in which freedom often means "freedom...
...unAmerican, on the contrary, I am an admirer of the U.S. since 1947 working in the accounting department of a great American company. But I think the comparison between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. must not be made on the basis of the year 1967, but on the basis of the U.S. about 1870 and the U.S.S.R. 1967. On this basis you will find a striking similarity between the young U.S. and the young U.S.S.R.: in both countries violence (see Western films), slavery, poverty and log cabins. In the young U.S. was capitalism to place the cornerstone of the greatness...
...University of America from 1949 to 1957 and one of the nation's leading interpreters of moral theology, who never hesitated to articulate his often controversial views, be it on the World War II atomic bombing of Japan ("from an ethical standpoint-simply murder"), court-ordered sterilization ("totalitarian, unAmerican, and irreligious"), or smoking (one pack a day is all right, two packs is a sin); of heart disease; in Washington...