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...disappointing so far. Isolationist liberals reject ideology but lack the courage of their convictions, shirking the point-blank predicaments of modern statecraft. They must first specify the genuine obligation, if any, of the U. S. to Europe, Japan and the Middle East. They must also confront in some co-herent way the problem of imperialism, Communist or anti-Communist. Anti-imperialist convictions might endanger the Soviet-American detente-a detente which most liberals now exploit as a primary tactic against excessive military spending. The new isolationists ignored the invasion of Czechoslovakia or simply begged the issue by saying American imperialism...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Foreign Policy The Vatican Vision | 10/21/1970 | See Source »

...program has been held together by the personalities of Kenneth B. Murdock and John H. Finley, Jr., the last two chairmen of the committee. But there was little left of the original program except a conviction that General Education lay outside of the departments, and there was no co-herent policy within the program...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: FROM THE ARMCHAIR | 12/18/1963 | See Source »

...disgrace to the college that one for its classes should exhibit such a mockery of a class meeting. While it is expected that the first meeting of the freshmen will be devoid of all sobriety, succeeding assemblies are supposed to allow an opportunity of exhibiting the herent respectabilities of the members. But the disgraceful scene enacted at the last meeting of the class of '88 deserves the severest censure of the college at large. Such a season of uproar as was witnessed in Boylston Hall last evening, can only be accounted for on the supposition that the presiding officers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/22/1884 | See Source »

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