Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOMEONE said American poetry is divided into smoothies and shaggies. I'm a shaggy." So says a poet who has been a Christian Scientist, agnostic, anarchist and conscientious objector. Yet today he wears the white tunic and black scapular of a Roman Catholic Dominican lay brother. See RELIGION, Beat Friar...
...basic scientific research. But it served to point up as serious a message as he has ever delivered. "In my public service," said he, "I have found myself increasingly involved with problems and policies affected by the growth* and impact of science and technology-[now] the cornerstones of American security and American welfare." In short, the day is at hand when U.S. science and the U.S. Government have firmly joined hands to plot the nation's future...
...Persistent Partnership." Since the "strength, growth and vitality of our science and engineering . . . hinge primarily upon the efforts of private individuals." said the President, "I derive special satisfaction from the fact that this conference is sponsored by private interests [the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Science]. The Federal Government, with its vast resources, could largely . . . blunt private initiative and individual opportunity. This we must never permit." Government's role: "a persistent partnership" with private institutions...
...there are still too few people at work on basic research (fewer than 30,000, or 4% of U.S. scientists and engineers). What can be done about it? "Regimented research would be, for us, catastrophe," said the President."We must search out the talented individual and cultivate in all American life a heightened appreciation of the importance of excellence and high standards . . . We must be willing to match our increasing investments in material resources with increasing investments in men." One concrete proposal: establishment of a hall of fame for the arts and sciences...
...20th century, the impatient and the doctrinaire often complain that Congress - slow-moving, operating through committees and compromises -is an awkward antique, a hindrance to national efficiency, perhaps even a handicap in the race for national survival. In a bracing new book on Congress and the American Tradition (Henry Regnery; $6.50), a conservative political philosopher speaks up this week in Congress' defense. The defender: muscular-minded James Burnham, 53, former New York University philosophy professor who made a still-rippling intellectual splash back in 1941 with The Managerial Revolution...