Word: attempted
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Kihlstrom agrees that the book "tries to make a lot of connections," but may attempt to tie too many disparate ideas together. He says that although much of Jaynes's theory is "speculative," it is also "very provocative," providing "lots of grist for the theoretical mill, whether or not one buys the whole package...
...Doty, director of this program, will become head of the new center. He said yesterday he hopes the center will be able to train individuals to deal with international issues in their professional lives. The center will also strive to analyze the shifting patterns of world military force and attempt to reduce the emphasis placed by nations on military strength...
...entire process of Vietnamization was a lie. It was not an attempt to wind down the war--as we have seen, its ferocity increased. Rather, as Elsworth Bunker has stated, it was a policy aimed at "chaning the color of the corpses." It was not the deaths that concerned Kissinger, but rather the death of Americans and the division it created in America. By substituting dead Vietnamese for dead Americans, he hoped to be able to continue the war with political impunity. Such racism must be condemned...
There are other problems with the Kissinger appointment that must be addressed. These are more particularly university issues and involve procedural questions. The negotiations with Kissinger have been handled entirely by the president's office in an attempt to minimize opposition and without attention to clearly established guidelines for faculty and student review of all appointments. These violations would seem to indicate that the university administration thinks it has good reason to pursue the appointment in a secret way--that there is something about its behavior that would not stand the light of day. A similar mentality has prevailed...
...struggle to open up the university. It is clear from the Kissinger appointment that the concerns of the university administration are not for a free and open university, nor for academic freedom. The students of the committee opposed to the appointment of Kissinger will not support an attempt to honor Henry Kissinger with an endowed Chair of Political Science. We are asked to judge Henry Kissinger and we have. We find him unfit to hold an appointment at Columbia...