Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholar's role in foreign policy were only to ask the embarrassing questions, that would make it too easy. There is work to be done as well. And it is precisely the area of advising the busy foreign policy professional on the nature and content of foreign politics that the scholar can make his greatest substantive contribution. The professional diplomat is the man who knows where, in Paris or in Phnom Penh, in Bonn or in Bujumbura, to find the door to which diplomatic notes should be delivered. He has a pretty good idea of what will happen...
...impresses all factions on the campus with both his fairness and firmness, has been stumping the state to argue against tuition and budget cuts, seems incompatible with a Reagan administration. U.C.L.A. Chancellor Franklin Murphy, a Reagan political defender but an opponent of the Governor on the budget issue, seems content to stay in Los Angeles, where he is a civic as well as campus leader...
Even Finley, however, is not perfectly content. Within each of his two roles are tensions and ambivalences. And, the tendency over the years has been for the Master character to shove the Professor character off stage, to the regret of the latter. "I sometimes think I've scattered myself too thin," reflects Finley, who is now 63. Twenty-five years ago, he was a meticulous scholar. His three essays on Thucydides, soon to be republished as a book, are, says Glen W. Bowersock, assistant professor of Classics, "the most important articles on Thucydides in the last century." But Finley...
Alice Childress, scholar-in-residence at East House, will speak on "The American Negro Playwright: Problems of Form and Content" at 7:15 p.m. tonight in Whitman living room...
...other issues originally involved in the TF's discontent--a role in the formulation of academic policy and a voice on other issues--have been set aside but not forgotten. The concept of teaching fellows' helping to set course methods and content or speaking out on general issues like the draft has a higher alienation potential than the relatively safe demand for more money to live on. The Feb. 15 meeting voted that the Federation should deal with issues of undergraduate education, but for the moment, the Federation will probably play it safe until it has had a chance...