Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University renewed Glimp's scholarship when he got back from England, somewhat to his surprise. He spent the next three years tutoring and researching a dissertation on Schumpter. He also married into the Boston Irish. By 1954, he was well on his way to a doctoral degree in Economics. But he wasn't happy about...
Known as the New England Assembly on Nuclear Proliferation, the group included a number of Harvard professors including Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, Henry A. Kissinger '50, professor of Government, and Richard E. Neustadt, Director of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics, chaired the Assembly...
Absolute Liberty. Stronger on polemics than on practical solutions, the New Left Catholics envision a socialistic society rooted in absolute liberty-which may be a contradiction in terms. Among their specific suggestions for reforming England are control of industry by the workers, abandonment of any nuclear deterrent. Within the church, they favor more democracy, including the election of bishops and more power for the laity in church affairs...
...movement has been harshly criticized by other intellectuals, both Catholic and secular. Douglas Woodruff, editor of England's leading Catholic weekly, The Tablet, has dubbed the New Left thinkers "the church's Red Guards" and dismissed their Christian Marxism as "nefarious nonsense." Cambridge's Raymond Williams, a radical, non-Christian socialist, notes a certain irony in the fact that the Catholic Left is espousing Marxism as an ideology precisely at a time when Communist governments in Eastern Europe are becoming more pragmatic. The Red Guards admit that they are open to criticism, but still insist that...
...educator has not been limited to Harvard College. Monro worked on the college Scholarship Service, spreading the scholarships procedures he introduced here to more than 1000 schools across the nation. During the past few summers, when many Faculty members retreated to the cool breezes of northern New England, Monro went south to Miles College. One of the most active members of the American Council of Education, he has been a strong supporter of civil rights, draft reform, and educational innovation...