Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wolff was followed by Robert G. McCloskey, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government. McCloskey seconded Woff's motion for approval of the plan and said that the provisions for guaranteed financial aid would help raise grad student morale, as well as improve the University's position in competitive recruiting of students...
...things gravely wrong with our society as a problem-solving mechanism," but, except for a slight shift from federal to local government, seemed always to be urging only more and better of the same. The United States "urgently needs leaders to symbolize its values, to clarify choices, to help sift priorities, and most of all perhaps to keep hope alive," Gardner said. That may be, but the effect of Gardner's performance was to make his style of liberalism look a flaccid and intellectually featureless position and to drive the undecided into a re-examination of the alternatives he disparages...
...second thing that Pusey's defense of ROTC showed was the political character of the issue. ROTC is not here to help students fulfill their military obligations in the easiest way (C.O.'s have not been given the same opportunity). And it is not here to preserve the "freedom from interference" or the neutrality of the University. (Bending over backwards, manipulating laws, and overruling Faculty decisions to satisfy the Pentagon is hardly preserving independence, and contracting with the Army to provide officers to fight the Vietnamese is hardly neutral). President Pusey clearly stated the reasons for ROTC's presence...
...view of my ambitions," she recalls. "She threw at me a copy of The Carpetbaggers. 'Read this,' she said, 'and tell me if that really is the kind of career you want.' " Raquel studied the book like a road map. "It was a tremendous help to me," she says, "because from it I learned what not to do. I made up my mind that Hollywood is not a place filled with sinister characters lurking in half-shadows waiting to seduce virgins. It's a place filled with hardheaded business people out to make money...
Ploy No. 2: "I only want to help." Positing a moral vacuum, students step in as chosen redeemers-"the Elect of History." Since they have a sense of mission rather than any specific purpose, they attach themselves to a "carrier" movement: civil rights, labor, etc. "Back to the people" causes are most popular with middle-class students, particularly if they permit an extra nose tweak for Father. (Mao Tse-tung has recalled the pleasure it gave him to side with the peasants that his father exploited...