Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moynihan fail to recognize, is not an instrument for the initiation and sustenance of social change. Its purpose is to institutionalize social change when it occurs--to legitimize the new order. It is somewhat naive, as the leaders of the War on Poverty have by now recognized, to expect a government body which rests on consensus to foster social change. As Moynihan himself says, "A quest for peace of this kind gives maximum leverage to the group with the most intransigent and assertive opinions, and the greatest ideological discipline" -- or, simply, the group with the most power. The problem...
...immediate, and to the bureaucracy which controls information necessary for the consideration of legislation. Further, the committees can enhance their own power by enhancing the power of the agencies and bureaus over which they have a degree of financial control. No group without influence upon this system can expect to be favored...
...This is a common enough American approach to social problems, but there is perhaps a special significance in this particular area: a quite disproportionate number of middle-class Negroes, and of whites involved in civil-rights activities, are themselves members of the service professions. It is too much to expect that such persons will be oblivious to the advantages that might accrue to them from bidding up the demand for their services. A more cynical person might describe the strategy as one of feeding the sparrows by feeding the horses. The Education section proposed that public expenditure per pupil...
Urban Oversight. Despite the mounting problems of city congregations, the author adds, seminaries are in many ways still helping students prepare "for a ministry to whatever is left of small town society." Although today's sophisticated laymen expect something more from their pastors than dogmatic, take-it-or-leave-it preaching, Feilding says that "the teaching method honored in the school was the lecture, so the graduate not unnaturally sets out upon his ministry lecturing people...
...returned to more venturesome art in an attempt to portray the surface glitter of U.S. society. Nowadays he captures it, often by amplifying its most sordid outcroppings. But he also suggests that life is full of fantastic fury and that picturing it is more attractive than many would expect...