A person looking back on his college course in American Government in the Forties or Fifties probably recalls its encyclopedic text full of details of the structures of government and the mechanics of politics with a second dose of the same — interspersed with normative exhortations — from his professor's lectures. The prof probably got away with verbal murder in promoting his own interpretations and conclusions as if they were equal to facts from the text. Probably most profs took their title quite literally; that is, they professed or declared their views, often with a passionate conviction. In those days, a prof could be reasonably sure he would not be contradicted by the students who were generally well-mannered, neat, clean, and docile. Today, the majority are well-mannered, neat, clean, and hypercritical.