Word: friedrichs
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Among the judges of the essays was Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government and member of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Public Administration. Others were Roy E. Larson, president of Time Inc, and publisher of Life Joseph Thorudike, assistant managing editor of life, and C. D. Jackson, vice-president of Time...
This is the first time that such a contest has been held. It happens that in the course of Professor Friedrich's Gov. 25 on Public Opinion and Propaganda, prominent laymen in the field are asked to give guest lectures every week. One of these speakers was C. D. Jackson, general manager of Life, who talked to the class, on the intricacies of Time-Life...
...Weapons for Victory; Food" by John D. Black, Henry Lee Professor of Economics; August 21, 23, and 26 "Weapons for Victory: Oil" by Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology and Director of the Summer School; August 28, 30, and September 2 "Weapons for Victory: Propaganda" by Carl J. Friedrich, Professor of Government and Harvard's propaganda expert...
From his analysis of the inexpertness of the expert, the author turns to a discussion of the problem of propaganda in a democracy, showing clearly the distinction between education for citizenship and teaching the citizen to choose between the conflicting counsels to which he is exposed. For Professor Friedrich, the solution to the conflict between democracy and bureaucracy would seem to lie in a democratic process of decision and a self-imposed routine of carrying out decisions. "What is required," he writes, "is a willingness and ability to take orders and instructions and to carry them out faithfully, even when...
Professor Friedrich has developed both a defense and a masterly vindication of the democratic idea as a regime for civilized man. In the holocaust, his words are calculated to pump new life into a fighting democracy. In the days to come they may well serve as the basis for a happier world...