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MOYNIHAN does not quite say that the community action programs should never have been implemented. It seems safe to infer that this is his belief, since he tells his readers that he argued against community action at the outset, and goes on to credit the programs with helping to create the atmosphere for riots on one side and the rise of George Wallace on the other. But he emphasizes throughout the book that what he is primarily concerned with is the broader problem of the application of social science to public policy. What disturbs Moynihan about the Community Action Program...
...Member), they worked themselves up over an anti-war petition to-- of all people--Lyndon Johnson. The anger expressed by some interns at the President's refusal to meet with them and receive their policy-shaking set of signatures struck me as incredibly naive. I do not mean to infer that last summer's interns should have attempted to lecture to their Congressmen, soberly and articulately discussing with him matters of interest, would have been the most effective action they could have taken...
Question: I infer, Professor Fair bank, from many of the things you've said and from some of the things that have been said during the day, that much of our position vis a vis China is controlled, if that is the word, by the situation in Vietnam--that unless and until that can be solved in some way, we're not really going to get anywhere on the longer term with China. Is that true...
...Your Essay on jargon points up one of the most basic problems in human understanding and communication: our misunderstandings with others often arise not out of what we say but out of what others infer from what they think we've said...
...that advantage may be lost if the defendant takes the stand a second time, especially if he tells a new story. Armed with the first trial record, the prosecutor can trap him into contradictions. Yet if a defendant does not testify, the jury, despite all judicial admonitions, will probably infer guilt. Bailey, however, interviewed the first-trial jurors and was convinced that his client's rather arch answers on the witness stand had hurt him badly. Sheppard did not testify at his second trial and, fortunately for him, neither did Susan Hayes, the attractive lab technician who appeared...