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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eliminate easily. Yet most Americans remain convinced that our individual and societal problems are still basically technical, that science and government will solve them, that they need only keep the radical troublemakers from making more troubles and defer all power to the experts, the men on top who know best. (After all, they've put Americans on the moon.) The technocracy in the United States retains the security of "a grand cultural imperative which is beyond question, beyond discussion." That old spectre, 1984, seems only minutes away...

Author: By Sandy Bonder, | Title: From the Shelf The Making of a Counter Culture | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

What happened next is perhaps best described in the words of an observer of the meeting. "It was a disaster. No one had done any advance work in the neighborhood. They did not know how the neighbors felt. The President came in prepared for a tea party but he didn...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: 15 Years Later, They're Still Fighting Over What to Build on Shady Hill | 10/29/1969 | See Source »

...Unions won't like this, employers won't like that. I just worry about solving problems and persuading people .... Many years ago, when I was younger, I used to worry about criticisms of being anti-union or anti-employer. Now I know you should go about doing things the best...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Profile John Dunlop | 10/29/1969 | See Source »

...making the Council representative-Fainsod and several others said that the Dean would be best able to choose a group representative of political, educational, and departmental interests. Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, said that "the Dean sees the Faculty from another point of view; he can take different considerations into account." Chalmers added that the current CEP-whose members are appointed-is "far from a monolith...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Special Faculty Meeting Discusses Reorganization | 10/29/1969 | See Source »

...with Farneti back at linebacker last Saturday, nobody was humiliating the Harvard defense. If Farneti stays in the lincup, nobody will. He seems to have a gift for making the unit cohesive and making it tough. The cornerback play last weekend was the best that it has been all season, and this was partly due to the confidence that Rick Frisbie and Neil Hurley have in Farneti's ability...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 10/28/1969 | See Source »

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