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...onrushing reality. Its successor is what might be called political-science fiction. Its practitioners aspire to write tomes that seem just like historical novels, but in the future tense. Seven Days in May, Fail-Safe, On the Beach-they have gone from Ugly to worse and from ad hoc to pure hokum. Right along with them has gone Eugene Burdick, co-author (with different partners) of both The Ugly American and Fail-Safe, and he now tries it solo...
...first Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911), the Supreme Court's "Great Dissenter" (316 dissents in 33 years). But Harlan's opposition to Court trends stems, in fact, from his belief that a judicial decision must be based on "uniformly applied legal principle, not on ad hoc notions of what is right or wrong in a particular case." The main difference between Jus tice Harlan and the rest of the court, says a former Harlan law clerk, is that he "is confined by what he considers his limited role, which is to apply statutes as he thinks Congress...
...Land. But the greatness of the program was not so much in its superb vignettes as in the experience of watching Eisenhower move through them, whether he was standing on the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc remembering the Rangers ("regular monkeys") who scaled them, contemplating Omaha Beach in a light rain with water glistening on his hat and droplets forming on his nose, or looking out over the water and recalling that the landing craft had trouble "over here, where the currents were...
...American novelist felt obliged to take in Valley Forge, the winning of the West, the Civil War and reconstruction, populism, World Wars I and II, and the Affluent Society. Nobody does this; the political novel (apart from the quickie or ad hoc novel like Fail-Safe) has been abandoned by U.S. writers along with the family saga...
...Such ad hoc decision-making can be dangerous. The University's political neutrality has safeguarded its political independence. Neither should be sacrificed casually. Civil rights is certainly a crucial political and social issue; but there have been other important causes and there will certainly be more. The University, as a large investor, is involved indirectly in almost every controversial political issue. Should the Corporation set minimum wages and determine fair labor standards for every firm in which it invests? What should be its policy toward companies whose subsidiaries trade with Cuba? Total University abstention from politics is not head...