Word: goldman
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...although most of them have tried-notably, Franklin Roosevelt with his Brain Trust, Kennedy with his White House stable of bright young Harvardmen. Even Lyndon Johnson sought to establish a rapport with the academic world. Last week that link was broken with the resignation of Dr. Eric F. Goldman, 51, who since 1964 had served the Administration as a part-time intellectual-in-residence. That raised a question: Would Johnson, whose appreciation of the intelligentsia is somewhat less than passionate, replace the missing link? The answer, typically Johnsonian, was both...
...announcing the appointment of Dr. John P. Roche, 43, professor of American civilization at Brandeis University, as a "special consultant" to the President, Press Secretary Bill Moyers pointedly observed that Roche was not replacing Goldman. Indeed, said Moyers, the White House had started angling for Roche three or four months ago-long before Goldman's letter of resignation landed on the presidential desk. That seemed to settle the "no" part of the answer. The "yes" part was embodied in the choice of Roche...
...this prevalence of suspicion-intellectuals mistrusting the President, the President mistrusting intellectuals -that has short-circuited communications between the two. Eric Goldman resigned largely because he felt that Johnson did not really use him or even listen to him. If his concrete accomplishments seem slender-staging the White House Festival of the Arts, urging reform of the country's archaic draft machinery, counseling Johnson to give a respectful ear to the voices of national dissent-it may well be that Goldman was not permitted to do more...
More objective, perhaps, than Goldman, John Roche allocates blame for the cultural rift equally between the President and the academicians. "From long experience," he says, "I have become convinced that most intellectuals are secret Platonists who feel that some how the messy, human aspects of life and politics should be brought under the control of enlightened men. In their view, politics should be a 'science' and the politician a 'political scientist.' " If the President still cares seriously about resolving the conflicts and getting along with the intellectuals, John Roche may well prove the ideal catalyst...
...weeks when the park's Shakespeare troupe, now in its twelfth season, yields its stage to a nine-day festival of ballet, ethnic and modern dance. Hoving's hoopla has perked up the park's staid old standby programs too. When he staged the Goldman Band's opening as a Gay Nineties costume party with 5? beer and hot dogs, 35,000 people turned out, giving the band the biggest audience of its 49 seasons. Other orchestral fixtures in the park, catching a spillover interest from Philharmonic concerts, are getting crowds of up to three times...