Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first point, I am pleased to see that you agree with me generally on the political implications of scholarship and on the emotional, controversial nature of vital political problems. Moreover, I agree completely with your emphasis on accuracy and truth. I have gradually come to accept Noam Chomsky's position on this issue; namely, that truth tends, by definition, to be radical and subversive of the existing order. This may in fact be a rationalization on my part, but it seems to be a reasonable stance. Thus, a political line can never justify the distortion of truth -- I am still...
...think you even miss the role CIA analysts have played in Vietnam. From what I gather from friends in Washington, the CIA analysts come closer than anyone else to getting our government to see the absurdity of the Vietnam policy. Would these men have contributed more to themselves, to policy, to the government if they had left government service...
Service workers today send their children to college (as one dishwasher in South House said, 'Why do you think I'm here?"). Well, people say, servants will come from somewhere. But the fact is that they won't, and rightly so, Immigration has been a limited source of domestic labor since the 1920's, and recent legislation has limited this source even further...
...projected budget shows a drop of more than $1 million in Faculty income. Much of this will come from discontinued government grant programs, Ford said...
Before yesterday's meeting, several professors speculated that the Faculty would act on some of the Dunlop committee's proposals--especially those dealing with elimination of the Instructor post at Harvard. Ford said last night, however, that Dunlop gave only "introductory comments," and that action on the proposals might come in November. Dunlop was not available for comment after the meeting...