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...last week a sophisticated, liberal expert on international affairs came remarkably close to resuscitating the Churchillian view that distance lends disinterest. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kenneth Galbraith, the former U.S. Ambassador to India, was asked about Viet Nam. Said Galbraith: "I have said many times that if we were not involved there, I think that all of that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity that it richly deserves...
Each United Ministry member has a different formula for breaking down the wall of disinterest. There are members who put some faith in convenient, well-stocked facilities. An official at Hillel House claims that attendance at Sabbath services has more than doubled since they were moved from Hillel House to the more accessible Phillips Brooks House. The Rev. Joseph I. Collins points to the new Catholic student center, with library, common room, kitchen, TV, workroom, and ping-pong tables, as the cause of a great jump in Catholic Club membership...
Still, for years the College has tolerated student government of one kind or another. And student politicians have had to tolerate the profound disinterest aroused by their every utterance. One politico, Howie Phillips, found this too difficult. In 1960 he piloted the Harvard Student Council into the mainstream of Richard Nixon's presidential campaign, and the HSC promptly sank...
Mary claims absolute disinterest in the 9-to-5 life-"the little house with the white picket fence and the roses"-and she made dozens of campaign speeches for John (a chore that Jackie abjured). Mary usually says what she thinks-bluntly. Once, as she and some friends were scanning a fulsome magazine piece about her husband, she snapped: "That's not the man I sleep with...
Negro Psychologist Dr. Kenneth B. Clark attributes the Negro's disinterest in other Negroes to "ghetto pathology"−which includes an unwillingness to make personal sacrifices beyond those already required by Negro life itself. Only last year, members of Sigma Pi Phi, an exclusive Negro fraternal organization known as "the Boule," debated whether it would be legitimate to donate $5,000 to the N.A.A.C.P. The main argument against the proposal was that an important aspect of the Boule was to allow members to relax and escape continuous involvement with the problems of being a Negro. Those who argued...