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...that noncreative scholarship in any field is dry and sterile. Certainly in science, certainly in philosophy, hard steady work and really original thinking (the two hallmarks of creativity) are necessary. The same should, I think, be true of history and even literary criticism. And where creative thinking flourishes, there the creative arts should flourish also; there will be no Untouchable Caste of painters, no group of Donne- and Yeats-citing and always identifiable poets, but a general interest and activity in the arts. I maintain that some emphasis on the creative arts is necessary in a university, and that Harvard...
...question of national survival must not be allowed to obscure the dangers which the shelter program entails; these can only be coped with if genuine debate is allowed to flourish. Just two days ago in Congress, a conflict-of-interest issue was raised concerning the various private research firms which double as military advisers and suppliers to the federal government...
...estimated 10% of U.S. transfusion blood is drained from paid donors by commercial supply houses, which sell the blood for profit. They need a license from the National Institutes of Health for interstate shipments. They flourish in the Midwest and the South. One such is the Community Blood and Plasma Service Inc. of Birmingham, Ala., which sold blood to the indicted Westchester dealers, but, far from being implicated, helped Public Health Service officers open up the case. It pays donors an average of $9 but may go to $20 for rare types. In segregated Alabama, its blood is labeled...
Beyond India's foreign and economic policy, a more subtle question is raised by the election: Can a strong opposition take root and flourish in India...
...Revolutionaries. But even where the government is strongest, North Italy's private industry manages to flourish. Though the state produces 55% of Italy's steel, Milan's Falck Steel succeeds by specializing in high-grade alloys. Periodic talk of nationalization of the electric power industry fails to faze ramrod-backed Giorgio Valeric, 57, managing director of Italy's largest utility, the Edison Group. Snaps Valerio: "We've doubled output in ten years, and we're still going ahead. Politicians are conservatives. We industrialists, we are the revolutionaries...