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Instead of making education inaccessible, another New York bred intellectual technique made information available to the public, but strictly on the intellectuals' terms. The notion of the intellectual-as-expert is ultimately a cynical one, which seeks to mold popular thought. The scheme was first practiced by Walter Lippman for The New Republic, and his inheritors on that magazine remain true to Lippman's model of insider journalism by making frequent guest appearances on Washington-based talk shows...
...Walter Lippman wrote. "The true view of cities is to regard them as places where the activities of the whole nation come to a head...There is no way to separate the cities from the nation." Seven years later Lewis Mumford observed that "today we begin to see that the improvement of cities is not matter for small one sided reforms; the task of city design involves the vaster task of rebuilding our civilization." Both statements have at least equal, if not greater, meaning today...
...reality is cities will remain. They can get worse, and hopefully they can get better. Anyway, for whatever it's worth, I am with Lippman and Mumford in believing that what happens to them will both reflect and determine what happens to America. And perhaps someday soon Harvard and the country will be with them...
...home computer depended on the marketing of interesting software, the videodisc player's consumer popularity awaits the creation of enticing disc software and increased awareness of the computer in the home. It should be understood, says M.I.T.'s video wizard An drew Lippman, that "the videodisc is peripheral to your personal computer, not the televison set." And that the admonition "Look but don't touch" applies to oil paintings, not TV screens...
...Walter Lippman '10 and John Reed '10 thought you were too stuck up and clubby, and you probably were. Now you are consciously, sub-consciously and unconsciously racist and facist and sexist and communist (or Marxist-inspired) and incestuous and pederastic and homophilic and homophobic and wishy-washy and contentious and anarcho-syndicalist and autocratic and authoritarian and libertarian and middle-class and upper-class and naive and snobby...