Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quoted in the New York Times in late September of 1961, Bender said that the rapidly increasing cost of a Harvard education may eventfully limit enrollment in the college to a small "economic elite...
...grant new benefits, such as money for telephones and Christmas gifts, so that life on welfare can more closely approximate life in the rest of America. Yet the welfare militants have more in mind than just getting a little more. By stretching the current system to its farthest limit, they reason, they will make it so expensive that the nation will have to search for an alternative...
Disciplining the discussion, however, proved far more difficult than seating the host of participants. At the outset, Kaysen warned that he might have to limit speaking time to "let 80 flowers bloom." They bloomed in a vast tangle. On the first day of the discussion--which proved the most productive in many ways--the conversation bounced from the problems of blacks in America, to the problems of big bureaucracy and corporate capitalism. A Czech economist, Eugene Loebl, interjected the problems of youth as a sub-theme, but conversation turned away after an insistent Italian suggested that the American crisis could...
...second proposal--to limit but not abolish ROTC at Harvard--has the advantage of appearing as a middle-of-the-road alternative to the two "extremes" of abolition and status quo. But this proposal would not solve the basic problems which ROTC's presence here poses and would probably create some serious new problems...
Goodwin admits that the policies of welfare liberalism he helped devise in the Kennedy Administration cannot control systematization. Liberal economics was the policy of "making everybody richer, directed from Washington." It distributed more fairly the output of technology, but could not limit productive efficiency for the sake of other values. "It's like putting a man on a window sill and asking him to fly," says Goodwin. "The old liberalism cannot establish communities; it can only build housing units. Liberals used to solving problems through centralization can't conceive of giving people more power in their lives...