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...views. Rockefeller now believes that there is a greater role for state and local government than he once envisaged; he would strictly limit the power of the Federal Government. He puts heavy emphasis on re-establishing the strength and vitality of state government, an idea stressed in his Godkin lectures at Harvard on "The Future of Federalism" that he increasingly uses to sum up his political philosophy...
...Snow has replied to the numerous criticisms provoked by the Godkin lectures he delivered at Harvard last year in a recently published appendix to his essay Science and Government...
...British author-scientist conceded that if he were to give the Godkin lectures again he might alter slightly the emphasis and tone of his remarks. But he states that he would still use the same illustrations to reach the same conclusions...
...exchange of outlooks and values, but there are two pitfalls which must be avoided. One obstacle to a productive exchange arises when the visitor feels compelled to become an academic, and delivers labored, often pretentious lectures in a pseudoscholastic vein. This is what went wrong with Governor Rockefeller's Godkin Lectures. A visitor from the world of practical politics, or the Broadway stage, has much to offer the Harvard community, but he must not be afraid to speak in his own language, not the language he thinks Harvard expects...
...though the academic life prevailed during three evening Godkin lectures at Sanders Theater, each day brought time for some quiet, but effective political activity...