Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trend proceeds in the private sphere, corporations merge, small colleges and small businesses find survival increasingly difficult. I find myself treasuring every remaining bit of pluralism, everything that stands between us and an all-embracing system. When I hear young people recommending the abolition of private enterprise, I question whether they have weighed the consequences. It may not have occurred to them that socialism or any other alternative to private enterprise would certainly mean the shouldering by Government of huge new burdens. Our giant corporations would not disappear. They would simply be merged into unimaginably vast Government ministries. And bureaucracy...
Among the dissenters today we hear a few with a special message. They say: "We don't need reform, we need revolution. The whole system is rotten and should be destroyed." I have talked long and seriously with such people and have found that most of them don't really mean it. There is an awesome theatricality about today's radicalism. But some, of course, do mean it. They have fallen victim to an old and naive doctrine-that man is naturally good, humane, decent, just and honorable, but that corrupt and wicked institutions have transformed...
...been to Gardner's comparison of Marcuse's disciples to the businessmen who supported Hitler or his line that "protest has become a disorderly game for 12-year-olds." There would have been, at the least, a chorus of boos, which the WGBH audience never had a chance to hear...
...first is that the real power in the University lies in the Corporation and not in the "proper channels" of which we hear so much. The Faculty was allowed to take responsibility for the issue as long as it seemed that the Corporation's wishes would be carried out. When the Faculty made a somewhat unsatisfactory decision, the Corporation thanked them, told them what they were and were not entitled to do, and manipulated (overruled) their decision precisely to its own desires. For the only "obstacle" the Faculty created (Corporation appointments), they have "lawyers working...
From powerful Chinese-built radio transmitters somewhere in Albania, a torrent of anti-Soviet diatribe pours forth each day. Though Russia, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria try to jam the broadcasts, a large part of Eastern Europe can readily hear Peking's attempts to turn the East-bloc countries against their Soviet Big Brother. Meanwhile, even as the Chinese-controlled station denounces "the Soviet renegades" in eight Eastern European languages, the Russians are steadily building up their own presence throughout Asia, an area that China regards as its own sphere of influence...