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...problem is that some intellectuals are helping to run society-while other intellectuals are busy accusing them of botching the job. Many denounce the Viet Nam war as "an intellectuals' war," because assorted academics helped conduct it. Meantime, the New Left has attacked liberals for having failed to cure the country's social ills. Caught in this cross fire, the intellectuals are wavering between passive despair and revolutionary fervor. Today, many intellectuals are unsure of where they fit into U.S. life, unsure of how to apply their intelligence to rational reform -even unsure of just what an intellectual...
...physical and behavioral sciences. The charge is that specialization has robbed thought of moral vision. In Big Science, for example, team members work on such small segments of an overall project that they feel no ethical responsibility for the result-a minor concern if the goal is a cancer cure, for example, but a major one if they work on pesticides...
...highway and auto-safety mea sures often make the cure seem worse than the disease. Seat belts save 2,000 to 2,500 lives annually, estimates the National Safety Council; yet motorists have to be cajoled into buckling them in stead of sitting on them. New super-lighways eliminate dangerous curves and intersections while creating new hazards in the form of bridge piers, complicated cloverleafs and, not least, driver boredom. Two new devices offer relatively painless and inexpensive ways to reduce crash damage without placing new burdens on the motorist...
...Corporation didn't just need a new member - it needed a new kind of member to help cure its image problem...
...have an open microphone in a free-speech station," says Harold Taylor, a Pacifica director and former president of Sarah Lawrence College. "The cure for bigotry is not served by refusing to allow expression of views which we con sider reprehensible...