Word: kennans
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...word article in the September 26 issue of the New Yorker -a superbly ironic vehicle with its two columns of corporate state persuasion for every column of Reich's text-there has been incessant buzzing about it in both political and academic circles. John Galbraith and George Kennan have each written a personal response in the Times...
...George F. Kennan, Memoirs...
...Kennan is far from alone. Because of widespread visual illiteracy, most of man-made America is ugly, messy and inchoate. But something may soon be done about the root problem. Next week Senator Claiborne Pell's Education Subcommittee will hold hearings on a bill that would provide $10 million annually for environmental-including visual-education. During the hearings, the committee members (average age: 54) will be asked to pore over a book written expressly for 13-year-olds...
...campaign against the anti-ballistic-missile program, which Nixon now wants to expand. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield opened fire last week by charging that it will cost "well beyond $50 billion" and asking: "Where the hell is it going to end?" Former Ambassador to Moscow George F. Kennan warned that ABM expansion could imperil progress in arms-limitation talks with the Soviet Union and touch off an arms race at "enormous expense and danger...
They will not, however, actually have to take an hour exam until late March or April, after another reading period of a week or more. Kennan, who has given the course several times previously under the normal structure, said he decide upon the experiment after finding a notebook of one of last year's students which indicated that the student had gone through the entire course without doing any of the reading...