Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory for the ruling class in this war would be a disaster for the American worker." Sargeant added, including the American university as part of the ruling class. "We're trying to shatter the illusions of the university-we want to expose them as bosses." he said. "The Moratorium lets these crooks off the hook...
...views were somewhat incompletely and at one point inaccurately reported. I asserted that DOD supports over half of current American foreign areas (not all behavioral), research. The sponsorship is not unimportant, moreover, because it tends to develop greater in-house capabilities for achieving DOD aims, perpetuates a loathsome Congressional discrimination against social-scientist-controlled funding sources, and puts many researchers. especially those interested in foreign areas, in a "conflict of interest" situation. On the other hand. I agreed with the views of Professor Deutsch, noted in the article, that reality assessments using expensive, "hard" techniques may help reduce Pentagon tension...
...became stronger within SDS, the National Office, under various leaders, frantically tried to concoct an alternative to the PL analysis. In doing so it allowed PL to set the terms of debate. Rather than pursuing their intuitive sense that PL was dead wrong about the dynamics of American politics, and creating a revolutionary vision that comprehended the complexity and uniqueness of American life, the leaders of SDS tried to find an analysis that they could use in maintaining control of the organization and preventing the conversion of the rank and file to PL politics...
...Most important of the Committees not yet considered is the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies. This Committee also existed before April. But its character was radically changed during the crisis, when the Faculty voted to allow six students to become members of the Committee...
This Committee has had the responsibility of developing the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard. It is not, however, to be confused with the search committee of the Afro program, which worked last year to fill Faculty places in the Afro-American Department...