Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intermediate administrators by examining committees and the Superintendent's recommendations, and top administrators by procedures the School Committee establishes for itself. Bringing competent new blood into the system is more essential--and thus more difficult--in the higher reaches of the hierarchy. Traditionalists like Fitzgerald resist outsiders and outside help like Harvard. Calling in the experts implies disloyalty to the Cambridge system for them. Duehay is willing to risk looking like an interfering academic, to insist that Cambridge go after the best men available for the jobs that fall open and new jobs that are created. And he is willing...
...some of the demonstrators sat-in not so much out of frustration at their inability to help end the war, but out of an honest conviction that the University should avoid connections with firms and government agencies linked to the U.S. war effort. These students--and a few Faculty members--are morally outraged by what some term "University complicity with genocide...
...economic interests. Nor is it much comfort to embrace the notion that the U.S. is engaged in the holier tasks of "nation-building" and preventing a bloodier conflict with Red China. Most people at Harvard, even those who affect a "tough-minded" outlook on American activities abroad, cannot help but be shaken by the tag of "murderer...
...write the authors, it would be "subjected to some very unpleasant surprises." Man cannot safeguard himself against the surprises of the future, but he can try to prepare for them by reducing what Wiener calls "the role of thoughtlessness." In that task, their book will help...
...There are thousands of children who need help, but if the war continues, nothing will effectively ameliorate the civilian disaster," Dr. Needleman said...