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Lipset admits, however, that the closer one gets to the Government, the less critical one becomes: "you have friends in the Establishment and you realize the problems they face and the goodwill with which they make mistakes." There is no question that excess knowledge may inhibit criticism, and there are times when an outside, critical appraisal can be valuable to the Government in the long-run, he said...
...Schelling, build up a research staff, dependent on continual government contracting. He feels that foundation grants are not much different from government contracts in the fact that both may "explicitly or implicitly constrain the freedom of the research organization." "The expectation of further grants and endowments," he says, "can inhibit, consciously and unconsciously, a research organization in the conclusion it reaches, in the research it undertakes, and in the people it attracts...
Either way it ruled, the court was bound to set a precedent. If it did nothing, legislatures would have a green light to keep out or effectively inhibit all dissenters. Yet if it overruled the Georgia house, it would move the judiciary -if only tentatively -into a hitherto sacrosanct area of legislative prerogative. No court, either federal or state, had ever before overruled the right of a legislature to judge the qualifications of its own members. The Bond case involved such a clear-cut violation of freedom of speech, however, that the precedent set by the court may have only...
...emphasize their importance; (b) grades were never intended to affect in any way the military status of a student; (c) grades are not a solid criterion for selection of recruits since they very so wildly among professors, departments, and colleges; (d) self-protective grade-grubbing in many cases may inhibit intellectual experimentation -- a student will hesitate to take a course that he might not do well in, but in which he might be interested; (e) to divide students into quartiles or thirds may force the Selective Service to choose between students whose academic averages are virtually the same...
...defeat of a Faubus candidate in the party primary, and finally by Rockefeller's victory over Jim Johnson, is in a state of unaccustomed disarray. Moreover, the new Governor will give the Republicans control of each of the county election commissions, and that will tend to inhibit construction of a new statewide Democratic machine. Many of the 50 freshman Democrats elected to the legislature have no ties with the party establishment, and may be amenable to cooperating with a new and popular Governor...