Word: greater
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...personal panache. French policy on the Common Market and defense may change simply because it has to, because French leadership after De Gaulle probably will not be strong enough to make continued defiance of France's neighbors stick. Sooner or later, West Germany, which can already claim greater prosperity and a sounder currency than France, will assume more influence. Even divided, Germany will likely regain its historic role as the Continent's strongest nation west of Russia...
Once considered incurable stay-at-homes, the French have spilled out of their country in recent years to explore the world in greater numbers than have any other Europeans. Airline offices, with their posters showing faraway places, have taken over the Champs-Elysées, and last week the press announced that a new airbus treaty would be signed with Germany. It is no longer unusual to find a barber in Antibes or a salesgirl in Lyon who has visited the U.S. ?or anywhere else?as a tourist. Practically everyone, it seems, has made a summertime visit to the Spanish...
Many intellectuals obviously must be involved in government. It is not enough to argue that such work risks intellectual compromise. Of course it does, but the greater risk is a government without intellectuals. Who wants, for example, a CIA run entirely by soldiers and policemen? In 1965 Robert Wood, head of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, considered the problem that such involvement means for intellectuals: "Given the uncertainties of actual influence possessed, its effectiveness and appropriateness, and the welter of motivations that compel the intellectual, it is not surprising that his present role is tentative and tormented...
...Cultural Mafia, proving the African link is less important than promoting greater understanding and tolerance of the special qualities of ghetto culture. Baratz, for example, argues that such well-intentioned programs as Head Start are doomed to failure because they implicitly seek to rob the Negro child of his uniqueness and absorb him into an alien white culture. "We have to meet the Negro in his world," he says, "explore his ghetto for its strengths, and understand the processes whereby this seemingly wicked environment sustains a viable culture." White America must not only learn to appreciate that culture, he argues...
Harvard has played its best games in those contests where it was the under dog. They beat Boston University (12-2) in a crucial Greater Boston League game and handed Springfield College. District I NCAA College Champions, their only defeat of the season. Hopefully the upset trend will continue tomorrow...