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Both the outsiders and the defectors are concerned that technological society is headed for what John Gardner calls "the beehive model"-a world of faceless bureaucracies and powerless individuals. One target is today's "multiversity," with its fragmented specialists, the antithesis of Cardinal Newman's 19th century idea of the university as a seeker of wholeness. Many intellectuals are also dismayed by the style of much intellectual thought today: the narrow pragmatism of the physical and behavioral sciences. The charge is that specialization has robbed thought of moral vision. In Big Science, for example, team members work...
...Ackerman Lance C. Buhl I. Bernard Cohen Leon Kirchner Neil Harris James R. Kurth Harry Levin Doris Kearns John M. Cooper Stanley Hoffman Daniel Field Robert Jervis John Rawis Max Krook John Raduer George Wald R. A. Cone Daniel Horowitz Kenneth J. Arrow Roger Rosenblatt Micheal Walzer Robert G. Gardner Morton White Owen Gingerich Roy J. Glauber Martin Karplus Gerals Holton Sydney Colemana Mark Ptashne Roderick Firth Gwilym Owen Earl Kim Stanley Cavell Paul Cocks Francis Hutchins Alex Inkeles Thomas E. Crooks J. D. Watson Y. C. Ho Robert P. Burden Richard Cone Ralph Mitchell Howard C. Rachlin John Raper...
...demands for total change, on the one hand, and by fear of any sort of change, on the other. How can the U.S. reform its society without going to either extreme? No one has yet produced a completely satisfactory answer. But no one has tried harder than John W. Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, now chairman of the Urban Coalition. In delivering the annual Godkin Lectures at Harvard, Gardner made an eloquent plea for constructive change in American institutions. Excerpts...
...Robert Gardner...
...pungency of such frequent bits of straight talking is vitiated by the circularity of Gardner's thinking. The lectures diagnosed a crisis in morale running all through Unites States society, but offered only rhetorical affirmations as a cure--"we can build a society to man's measure--if we have the will." Gardner acknowledged that "there are things gravely wrong with our society as a problem-solving mechanism," but, except for a slight shift from federal to local government, seemed always to be urging only more and better of the same. The United States "urgently needs leaders to symbolize...