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Unlike its namesake and predecessor, the Yale version of Criterion has neither the polish nor the significance of Eliot's bauble. Unsophisticated, often trite, frequently ill-though-out, and almost never really original, it is still potentially one of the best things to happen to Yale since godandman departed...
Under mounting public criticism, the Truman Administration set up the Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security to study the whole loyalty system. In April 1952, the Committee recommended that the government establish one encompassing program based on "suitability" or general fitness for federal employment. Such a criterion would have regularized the security procedure and enabled the government to suspend an employee without undue damage to his personal reputation...
After dinner J.D.R. Jr. and his guests often gather around a baby-grand piano while Mrs. Rockefeller plays Mendelssohn or Chopin, or the J.D.R. Jr.s might drive downtown to the Criterion in Bar Harbor to a movie, e.g., The King and I. Every now and then, J.D.R. Jr. darts out on a sudden foray: one day he remarked to a visitor that he had just been out to buy 22 Bibles, "one for each of my grandchildren...
...Socialist lines." Workers in nationalized mines find no greater joy or increased incentive in the knowledge that the mines are theoretically "theirs." Even the fundamental doctrine that Socialism is more efficient than capitalism and hence productive of higher living standards was abandoned. "If increased production is to be the criterion," asked Twentieth Century Socialism, "can we really prove that Socialist policies will be more effective than the capitalist policies which set the pace in the U.S. today?" The Gaitskellites were prepared to accept the theory of a mixed economy with public and private ownership...
Revelation of Hope. And what of the intellectual in a land where privilege has passed to the crowd? The intellectual's true vocation, says Philosopher Sidney Hook, "is critical independence. The intellectual betrays his vocation when he becomes a poet laureate of the status quo. The criterion is neither assent nor conformity . . . My experience has been that most so-called intellectuals are just as conformist to tradition in their immediate circle as the nonintellectuals. Many intellectuals would rather 'die' than agree with the majority, even on the rare occasions when the majority is right." Certainly, says Barzun...