Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In a series of a three panels and two workshop sessions, the conference-subsidized by the Kennedy Institute of Polities-will consider such questions as university expansion in urban areas and the role of students and professionals in community organization.
Tomorrow's panel, an open forum, will discuss Harvard expansion and its impact on the Cambridge and Boston housing markets. Barbara Ackerman, Cambridge City Councillor. Edward S. Gruson, assistant to President Pusey for Community Affairs, and Robert S. Parks, president of the Roxbury Tenannts of Harvard. will appear as panelists...
But the President has not usurped the Constitution. The balance of power in foreign affairs has always been a political rather than a legal creation, and the Congress is simply taking a more active political role. It now resents the fait accomplis of military intervention-as in the Dominican Republic...
-Oliver Goldsmith (1770) I INTIL recently only dyspeptic phi-V-' losophers, conservationists and a handful of academics dared to question the proposition that economic expansion necessarily fosters human progress. Each jump of the national output of goods and services has been treated as a triumph, each fall as a...
Microbiologist Barry Commoner (TIME cover, Feb. 2) pleads for a complete overhaul of the "progress through technology" ethic. He calculates that the U.S. must completely revamp as much as one-third of its productive system-farming, mining, papermaking and fossil-fuel power generation, for example -to repair damage already done...