Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy to sustain the American ideal that success is primarily related to effort, when so many in the cities are excluded from effective political and economic power...
...Even for the privileged, the feeling of social claustrophobia is tightened by a system of conscription which makes the campus a draft haven and which distorts career choices in an effort to avoid service in a war nobody wants to fight. The deep misgivings about the war, compounded by the immorality of using an inequitable draft to fight it, generate a bitter skepticism of the values which motivate all established authority...
...Federal Bureau of Narcotics dispensed these ideas for more than two decades until it was merged into a new division of the Justice Department last year. Accumulating research had exploded such notions, but officials kept repeating them in an ineffectual effort to scare kids away from drugs. Actually, most young neophytes are surrounded not by pushers but by other kids who exert the normal adolescent pressure to conform...
...proposed research program is a university based effort and therefore oriented to advance a major field of science. While it is a basic research effort, it is likely to lead to many applications. The potential applications of the advances made- if the project succeeds- may perhaps be better understood by those in public life who will apply the knowledge than by the scientists themselves. Yet it is clear to us that public policy will be aided by advances in the understanding of human interactions and in the prediction of the performance of social systems...
NOONE connected with the Cambridge Project denies that the Department of Defense is likely to benefit from the program. There is some private skepticism about Pool's optimistic predictions in the proposal to ARPA and Foster- which was, after all, an effort to sell social science to a Defense Department that is looking for utility, and utility rather narrowly defined. But unless the whole field of technological behavioral science is a complete fraud with no connection to reality whatsoever (which seems unlikely), then the Defense Department is going to get something back on its investment in the Cambridge Project...