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...subservience we can do no better than the introduction to Semour Martin Lipset's Political Man. We discover there a number of astounding things: "that the United States Martin Lipset's Political Man. We discover there a number of astounding things: "that the United States (is) a nation in which leftist values predominate"; that "the values of liberty and equality became institutionalized within America to a greater extent than in other nations"; that "the values of socialism and Americanism are similar"; and that, economic systems apart, Herbert Hoover, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller "advocated the same set of social...
...calling contains more than its share of what the Nation long ago called "higher hokum." But it is also a legitimate and essential trade, necessitated by the complexity of modern life and the workings of an open society. It is growing today, says Harvard Government Professor Seymour Martin Lipset, because "there is ever more direct communication between power and people...
...this said, our general conclusion on the significance of organized student conservatism in the 1960's approximates Lipset and Altbach's--that, despite impressive financial and organizational backing, student conservatives "have not been successful in building a movement which has much commitment from its membership," nor has it "made any real impact on the campus...
...Left has a problem, Lipset continues, because they can't have it both ways. They complain first that they don't have any courses which are applicable today-- "We (the Left) are locked up in an Ivory Tower which has no contact with the events of today." But when the Ivory Tower is torn down, and the real world turns out to be the Establishment, then they want to rebuild their fortress--their Ivory Tower. "What the Left really wants is a politicized campus with a Left Penchant," or else they will scream that Theory is their protection against short...
...upshot of these criticisms, with the exception of Lipset's, is that the Institute may foster an uncritical approach to policy-oriented research -- and that through its Honorray Associates program, it will encourage "political and ceremonial events" instead of genuine educational debate. The Institute has yet to define its goals and remains in the sacred veil of "experimentation," but the critics are anxious and feel that it must justify itself in academic terms before it receives the blessing of the community.SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET Professor of Government...