Word: fostered
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...doesn't support a major university. The result, he contends, has been a marked lack of communication between the scholars and officials. Although the Kennedy Institute will not completely make up for Harvard's misplacement (or Washington's), it will be a great deal better than nothing and should foster closer ties between the Government and academia...
...upshot of these criticisms, with the exception of Lipset's, is that the Institute may foster an uncritical approach to policy-oriented research--and that through its Honorary Associates program it will encourage "political and ceremonial events...
...upshot of these criticisms, with the exception of Lipset's, is that the Institute may foster an uncritical approach to policy-oriented research -- and that through its Honorray Associates program, it will encourage "political and ceremonial events" instead of genuine educational debate. The Institute has yet to define its goals and remains in the sacred veil of "experimentation," but the critics are anxious and feel that it must justify itself in academic terms before it receives the blessing of the community.SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET Professor of Government...
...Critics of Professor Shockley [Feb. 3] unjustly claim that he seeks evidence for Negro inferiority to foster racial bias. There may be biological as well as environmental bases for social problems involving many individual Negroes. It may be that one means to equality of achievement for Negroes as a "racial" group is biological, i.e., by positive eugenics or by biological engineering when means are developed. Social actions are being taken on the basis of whether persons are white or Negro rather than on the basis of their individuality, and actions are being taken on the assumption that if environments...
...really? The Don Quixote of his country? He lacks the illusions of the gaga grandee; besides, he is his own Sancho Panza, and he doesn't own a horse. One thing is certain, he is bafflingly Mexican. He was nursed by his mother, but a foundling foster brother got most of the milk. It was the same with his first crime-robbing the church poor box. A confederate got the pesos and Pito got the penance. "My life," he says, "is a sad one, like that of all cheats. But I have seen people laugh so often...