Word: hoffmann
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...merits of the College's housing plans. They went so far as to survey the College on some questions. And after all this effort, which consumed the time of not only the student members of the committee, but such respected Faculty members as Giles Constable and Stanley Hoffmann, the College Council met without reading the recommendations before hand and dismissed them for the present in what turns out to have been a fit of pique...
...opposition to the Vietnam war. This giant teach-in, held on over 70 campuses throughout the country, will include a program at Sanders Theatre, broadcast by telephone and radio to colleges in the South and East. The student leaders hope that the speakers--Professors Galbraith, Fairbank, Cohen, and Hoffmann--will focus on the kinds of questions that will be dealt with in programs this spring and summer...
...Hoffmann said the war could not be blamed on a military-industrial complex ("This is a myth.") or on "the wickedness and stupidity of one's leaders." The structure of decision-making in the U.S. government, he said, would drive any leader to much the same course of action...
...Wilson, professor of Zoology, Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, and B. F. Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, will discuss aggression and Konrad Lorenz's bookOn Aggression at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Bertram Hall Common Room...
Ulam agrees with Hoffmann that the prominent politicians are unable to "say any more than they could on T.V." when they appear at Harvard as public speakers. It would be much better to concentrate on the less prominent figures who could describe the pressures that affect their posture. But even here he is pessimistic about the possibilities: "There are very few men who can express themselves well enough to aptly describe the political process," he said...