It should be the library's job to integrate a man with his present, thereby giving him a future, not to reconcile him with his past. (Author)

Part II of a two-part series on Roman ruins in Great Britain. Part I appeared in the April 1970 issue of "Classical Outlook." (DS)

Part I of a two-part series on Roman ruins in Great Britain. Part II appears in the May 1970 issue of "Classical Outlook." (DS)

Examines the epistemological assumptions underlying the teaching of high school science. The author recommends a science course at the high school level in which science is presented, within a historical context, as an essentially theoretical activity which reflects a culture's political, religious, philosophical, aesthetic, and ideological…

Outlines the special characteristics of television that make it a formula-bound, ritualistic, repetitive, and nonselectively used system; concludes that television's social symbolic functions resemble preindustrial religions more than they do the media that preceded it. (GT)

English (n=50) and U.S. (n=80) nursing students completed the Professional Values Scale, resulting in a high degree of congruence between the two groups in their values. Discrepancies appeared in only three areas: client/nurse rights, client/public safeguards, and research uses. (SK)

The literature on diversity in higher education spans a broad range of issues. However, while broad in range, contemporary scholarship on diversity in higher education often suffers from a view of diversity that is ahistorical and acontextual. Through a critique of a study by Wolf-Wendel, Toma, and Morphew (2001), aims to demonstrate how…

Posits that the birth of the road film is linked to interrelated postwar phenomena: the advent of the automobile as an expression of individuality, and the emergence of a large strata of restless youth. Discusses road films from 1950 to the 1990s. Finds that the gradual depoliticization of road film rebellion must itself be understood finally as…

States that "Ren," the first Chinese "manifesto of egalitarianism," written in 1896-97, was an important spiritual contribution to the republican movement toward the end of China's last imperial dynasty. Argues that the persuasiveness of its nontraditional egalitarian argument is explained by the writer's skills in exploiting…

Assesses implications of the strategic management aspect of public relations for firms in Singapore. Focuses on how firms with differing organizational structure/background respond to the challenges of executing core public relations activities. Finds that manufacturing firms pay less attention to customer relations than service organizations, and…

Surveys 43 female practitioners (mostly youthful) in 4 Chinese cities. Reports substantial career advancement for females but some stereotyping by male colleagues. Notes that guest relations took much of respondents' time. Concludes that practitioners appeared to behave as technicians but think somewhat as managers when handling guest relations.…

Postulates that, if genres serve as problem-solving constructs for the cultures they reflect and are fundamentally conservative structures committed to temporary resolutions of the hopeless contradictions that produce their dramas, then Brian DePalma's "Scarface" exemplifies the ways gangster films of the 1980s redefined generic…

A Native Hawaiian critiques the notion that philosophy is acultural, focusing on the spiritual and cultural context of knowledge, cultural influences on perception, relationships as the basis of epistemology, practical knowledge, the power of words in an oral culture, the mind-body question, and the politics of education. (SV)