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...REALIZING THAT McGovern is important largely because he represents an important political coalition we can discount one of the liberal truisms of this campaign--that this is the great watershed election, whose results will determine the political course of the next thirty years. Such dire prognosis is wrong, insofar as it assumes that the political developments that gave birth to the McGovern candidacy will roll over and play dead if Nixon wins by a landslide. It's not that the left isn't subject to fits of moribund depression that would follow a Nixon victory. It has already proved that...
...myth of Prometheus has commanded the allegiance of moderns, insofar as moderns have bothered with myths at all. What could suit the Age of Technology better, after all, than the legend of a discontented hero who snatched fire from the gods, enabling men to modify their destiny by exploiting this marvelous new kind of power...
...according to Journalist Garry Wills, author of Nixon Agonistes; elections merely ratify social change, he insists, they do not create it. In the current issue of the Center magazine, Wills observes: "Cultural change is supposed to come about through our democratic political system. That is a lot of nonsense. Insofar as changes occur, they occur between elections ... when a lot of people take stands on issues and when politicians then find they can introduce some of them into legislative action. Then the politicians get a retrospective vote of approval (as Roosevelt did in 1936) or disapproval (as Johnson...
Ambiguities in philosophy, insofar as a unified philosophy of the House system exists at all, manifest themselves at each planning crisis--whether consideration is being given to new programs and experiments or administrators are planning to change the levels of House programs' subsidies. Rarely can projects be definitively assessed, since no one is certain by what yardstick the success of an activity in the Houses is to be measured...
...ATTITUDE of Harvard House Masters toward House courses is cautious. Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, said in an interview that House courses work fine "insofar as people want to give them." Lowell House, he stated, has had a committee like that proposed by CHUL since the beginning of special concentrations. He would like to encourage House courses as an option, but believes a departmental effort to concentrate sophomore tutorial in the Houses would be far more valuable...