Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research contracted by professors through the Research Contract Office, is unclassified and publishable. But there can be little doubt that some professors' work--even if the public sees it--contributes at least marginally to the decision-making process in Washington. In that town, politicians and bureaucrats, not idealistic academics, pull the most weight, and they can do what they want with the research they have sponsored...
...joint committee would no doubt provide them the opportunity to ask the questions. Numerous Faculty committees ask professors periodically to testify in closed sessions. It is likely that any Faculty member invited by one that holds public hearings would abide by tradition and come anyway...
Students entranced with possible investigations figure that exposure of government involvements will inspire action to end them. Hoffmann doubts it. His idea of the committee--which is no doubt shared in broad outline by Ford--provides not simply for revelations of involvement but a good deal of discussion as to what it all means...
...Jenkins in 1964, there was no arrest in the present instance-nor for that matter were there any of the national-security implications raised by the Jenkins affair, since a Governor's office is unlikely to have any national secrets worth worrying about. The upshot was to cast doubt both on Reagan's credibility and his tactical skill in dealing with the difficult situations that inevitably confront a major league politician...
...Steerage? The book's cool tone invites no emotional response, but it is certain to evoke one. A sense of great hazard, of impending doom, pervades its pages, no doubt unintentionally. After projecting unprecedented wealth and leisure by the year 2000-median family income of $21,000 in the U.S., a four-day work week-the authors study the consequences: "There may be a great increase in selfishness, a great decline of interest in government and society as a whole . . . More and more people would act on the aphorism currently attributed to a leader of the new student left...