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Scymour Martin Lipset said, "There is a credibility gap. The President's position in unredeemable. We're not just reporting the situation on campus. It's much, much more...
Walzer brought his colleagues up to date on the results of the Faculty meeting, commenting, "There was an cageyness to make a 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...
...Lipset mentioned "The success of Vietnam in recreating Communist Youth movements all over Europe...
...remember one luncheon with Professor Seymour Martin Lipset in the sanctuary of the Lehman Hall small dining room. (The crowded, noisy Lehman Hall cafeteria outside is an SDS hangout for people so alienated from their fellow students that they refuse to sat in the house dining halls...) ... With his string-bean thin tie and crumpled suit, Lipset seemed the very human, modest, and even shy genius...
...Lipset goes on to become a central figure in Kelman's intellectual pilgrimage, calling Kelman to ask advice and giving evidence to support Kelman's theories. It is no huge surprise when he appears on Kelman's back cover to blurb the book as "the best discussion of conflict in the university that has come from undergraduate ranks...