Word: khrushchevism
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...building currently, and for the greater part of this century, known as the Freshman Union, as well as a "Social Sciences Quad" in the Littauer region north of the yard. In front of a sea of wealthy potential donors, Rudenstine seemed suddenly possessed by the spirit of Khrushchev. In his ardent pitch for restructuring he informed the crowd that, "the new facilities will be designed to create--quite literally--physical as well as programmatic `bridges' between separate units." Putting departments next to each other will foster interdisciplinary approaches to problems, he declared, ushering in a scholastic golden age of professorial...
...place that has always shown itself a safe-haven for bureaucratic absurdities. As though it has not done enough in preserving the tradition of pointless paperwork, generous sinecures, proliferating committees, sub-committees, and ad hoc working groups, Harvard has now decided it should adopt the animus of Mr. Khrushchev's greatest folly...
Unfortunately, that's what Khrushchev thought. Three years later he was involuntarily retired, scratching his head and watching his successor undo his "bold" idea. Thirty years later, as hordes of Kennedy School professors stake their careers on cleaning up the economic fallout of such "hairbrained schemes" (as those who deposed Khrushchev referred to this plan, among others), their president is preparing to embark on the same course of bureaucratic juggling...
...there is a legitimate shortage of space for academic departments, the administration should sacrifice some of its ample space and decamp to points beyond the Square. Why doesn't the bureaucracy give up University Hall to the academic departments? Here, the plan is much worse than Khrushchev's; when he kicked the Agricultural Institute out of Moscow, he established Lumumba University in its place...
Moving the ministries didn't grow Khrushchev any corn or wheat. For Rudenstine, shuffling the departments will beget him only chaff...