Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crossman occasionally lapses into the same mechanistic liberal-realism which afflicted Bagchot's account of the English Constitution. He would discuss politics exclusively in terms of the management and the exercise of power. He would congratulate the masses for their "bovine stupidity" and then ignore them. True, the party machine introduces a popular element, though still at one remove, into the operations of government. But as the dynamic of social change, the party remains autonomous of the public in formulating policy. "All the new ideas come from the rank and file who are always out of tune with the majority...
...teach Renaissance poetry because they say that they are unsure about what to do. That is a common belief for people who have been acting only upon assurance (from someone who they respect more than themselves) that the proposed action is "right." If someone has an idea, we will discuss it and probably try it. If it works, fine. If not, then we have learned one more thing that does not work...
...conference, called to educate people about the war and to discuss strategies for ending it, drew speakers whose views on violence covered the spectrum of liberal anti-war opposition...
Apparently aware that presidential papers would be difficult to come by and that serious students of the presidency are doing well without his institution, Hoxie now emphasizes the library's potential value to high school pupils. He has also turned to setting up a symposium to discuss aspects of the presidency. Hoxie took along Eisenhower Press Secretary James Hagerty when he went to Washington to line up speakers and guests. President Nixon's communications director, Herbert Klein, agreed to be the main speaker. Hagerty and Johnson's press secretary, George Reedy, accepted invitations to discuss "The White...
About 50 people attended an "organizational meeting" of the Free University last night. The meeting decided that persons using drugs in Lawrence Hall would be asked to leave. and broke up into committees to discuss scheduling problems and recruit clean-up crews. After the meeting, members of a "film affinity group" showed films...