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...deal with students-we leave you alone, you leave us alone. It's not an honorable arrangement." Lipset, a large man with thick black glasses, ate his mushroom omelette largely in silence. As they left breakfast for a final strategy meeting, several stopped at chat briefly with Carl Kaysen, director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and frequently mentioned Harvard presidential candidate. "I was just here having breakfast with Daniel Patrick [Moynihan]," Kaysen said cheerfully...
...Committee also announced the Overseers' election of Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Radcliffe, to the Committee and the appointment of Carl Kaysen, director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, as a consultant. Kaysen was formerly a professor of Economics at Harvard and an assistant to President Kennedy for national security affairs...
...larger planning commission, usually associated with the Academy. The Overview Committee on the Goverance of Universities, for instance, met last April to plan a conference and volume on "Academic Ethics: Rights an Responsibilities." The Committee counts among its 15 members David Riesman, Daniel Bell, Martin Duberman, Talcott Parsons, Carl Kaysen, Neil Rudenstine, and two college presidents. They commissioned the articles, sent out invitations to the authors, and selected the critics and panelists for the conference (set over a half-year later). The conference--numbering 25 to 30 people--often takes place at the House of the Academy in Brookline. More...
...This is the American way of doing things-to expect to solve all the world's problems in four days," complained Sulak Sivaraksa, editor of Bangkok's Social Science Review. Crumped U.S. Economist Carl Kaysen: "Everyone wants to talk and no one wants to listen." The occasion for their disgrunllement was a four-day meeting last week in Princeton of some 90 inter national intellectuals assembled for a look at "The U.S.-Its Problems, Impact and Image in the World." The conferees, naturally enough, were dismayed by the problems themselves, but perhaps even more so by the impossibility...
...Kaysen later pointed out, the conference organizers had no obligation to represent all areas of the political spectrum. Still, it seems likely that the conference would have been more successful if they had made a concerted effort to pull in the fringes. Shepherd Stone, the President of the International Association for Cultural Freedom which sponsored the conference, originally justified the choice of conferees as an attempt to insure "rational discussion." But one had an annoying sense that it was the style of discussion, as much as the size of the conference or its organization, that hamstrung its efforts...