Word: american
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...from the professor. It is Washington that he really cannot abide. He complains of the way jet fighters were shipped to India's unfriendly neighbor Pakistan. It was, he remarks acidly, about as furtive as "mass sodomy on the B.M.T. at rush hour." But it is another vexing American institution, the State Department-which he considers short on policy, long on platitude-that Galbraith finds hardest to forgive. "Mindless," "petty," "pompous" and "late" are only a few of the acid adjectives he applies to Foggy Bottom, and for the most part he bluntly takes Dean Rusk...
...complaints. He also took it upon himself to advise the young President not only on Indian affairs but about Berlin and Viet Nam too, sounding early warnings against military intervention in Southeast Asia. Counseling and criticizing, he variously complained that "money serves as a substitute for intelligence" in American foreign policy and that complex issues are too often reduced to simple-minded win-or-lose terms. As a gadfly, he kept pointing out, too, that it is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what...
Student membership on the Faculty's Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies is a "dubious precedent" for further reform of the University's decision-making process, Henry, Rosovsky, professor of Economics, wrote in the latest issue of the magazine American Scholar...
...students, three elected by prospective concentrators in the field and three by the members of the Association of African and Afro-American Students, were subsequently added to the Committee's seven faculty members. The Standing Committee recommends all appointments in the new department, and will continue to exercise this power until four permanent appointments have been approved, when it will be succeeded by an eight-member Executive Committee, to be composed equally of faculty and students...
Rosovsky was chairman of the Faculty Committee on African and Afro-American Studies, whose widely-publicized report last January recommended the establish-ment of an undergraduate concentration in Afro-American Studies, an increase in the number of fellowships available to black graduate students, and the creation of a black students social center. The Faculty adopted his committee's report in February, and Rosovsky was named to oversee the development of the new department...