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Almost every student comes to the College a particular personal utopia, challenge, opportunity, and almost none finds what he expects. Many are fortunate and never realize badly they guessed; others are blessed with accurate enough to be changed without pain; some are so little committed that they can change their ideas easily. But for the majority, the discovery that Harvard is not what they anticipated is critical in forming their attitudes toward the College and toward higher education...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: The Freshman Year: Education by Trauma | 10/21/1960 | See Source »

Because of the nature of the problem, the vast renovation of society which its solution entails, the committed must realize that perceptible success lies far in the future--there is no utopia next door. The road is difficult, sometimes barren, and extremely lonely

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: In Boston | 10/7/1960 | See Source »

These are the conditions that give Fidel Castro and his vision of a Utopia a popular audience all over Latin America: 1% With 20 million more people than the U.S., the Latin American nations have combined gross national products of only about one-eighth the U.S.'s. Latin American population keeps rising at a fast 2.6% annually, which pushes the per capita share of G.N.P. down-from a fat 4.1% increase in 1957 to a slim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Coming to Grips | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

Most scientists are conscientious, hardworking people, well aware that it's here that the diseases kill, it's here that the ma!formed babies are born, it's here where man needs to center his efforts and thoughts, and not on some nebulous Utopia of an afterlife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1960 | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...Democratic Landslide: The election wiped me out. There wasn't anything left to talk about because we have Utopia. With Byrd, Eastland and Faubus, what can go wrong? Nelson Rockefeller: He is promising that if elected he will give the kids Little League polo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A SAHL'S-EYE VIEW:: A SAHL'S-EYE VIEW: The Unfabulous Fifties | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

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