Word: governance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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World War II ended, after a loss of 22 million Chinese lives, with Chiang nominally the ruler of all China, one of the world's Big Five, and a founding father of the U.N. But the generalissimo soon proved unable to govern his ruined country. Corruption reigned, abetted by hoarding, inflation, hunger -and, as Chiang himself later admitted, "organizational collapse, loose discipline and low spirits of [our] party members." When Mao's Communist forces besieged Peking, early in 1949, Chiang's defenders defected to the enemy and Chiang himself resigned the presidency. For six months, while city...
...guiding principles govern the ideal design of this part of a student's plan of study: DISTRIBUTION and EXPERIMENTATION. Increasing options for non-graded work outside a student's field of concentration will encourage him to pursue studies in areas which are unfamiliar to him and in which academic success is not initially assured. The notion of experimentation in general education applies to all portions of the educational process, including forms of instruction and evaluation. We would expect that most Intensive Studies undertaken in January (see next section) will be General-Education oriented, even though concentration credit might be requested...
...vassals began plotting to "convince outside observers, especially Americans, that the sacred Emperor had been a victim rather than villain of Japanese militarism." This suited the Allies admirably; without at least some semblance of the imperial system, General MacArthur estimated, he would need 20,000 American administrators to govern Japan and a million troops to police it. "There is no specific or tangible evidence," said MacArthur, "to connect the Emperor with responsibility for any decision of the government during the past ten years." Instead, the Allies prosecuted 28 of Hirohito's top officials and hanged seven of them...
...Kenneth Clark, president of the American Psychological Association, has proposed a startling cure for international aggression. The world's leaders, he told the A.P.A. meeting in Washington, should be required to take "psychotechnological medication"-pills or other treatments to curb their aggressive behavior and induce them to govern more humanely. Such a pharmacological fix, Clark argued, "would provide the masses with the security that their leaders would not or could not sacrifice them on the altars of the leaders' personal ego pathos...
...Lindsay is the only politician who can make points out of chaos. He is the acknowledged leader of the nation's mayors in their fight for greater federal revenues to rescue the decaying cities. Lindsay says he plans to refute critics now by demonstrating that he can indeed govern New York City; he means also to use its problems as proof of a larger national crisis instead of evidence of his own incompetence...