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Better education would enable more people to earn higher incomes, which in turn would allow them to consume more of our manufactured goods. The long-run effects of such a policy would surely be a greater benefit to our shortsighted industrialists in terms of increased sales and good will than would the production of more junk...
...very crude extrapolation from two sound proposals: (1) Formal education generally benefits, in an economic and "cultural" sense, both the student and the society he eventually serves. (2) There are times when a democratic government must act unjustly to preserve itself, must place short-run "national interest" before the long-run goal of building and preserving a democratic society. Though defensible in themselves, neither of these propositions justify the 2-S deferment...
...development plans. The emphasis on national development was not intended to divorce foreign aid from the political interests of the United States. But it looked to long-term rather than short-term political effects. In this view, foreign aid, instead of being a State Department slush fund to influence tactical situations, should aim at the strategic goals of a stronger national independence, an increased concentration on domestic affairs, greater democracy and a long-run association with the west...
Jolly Showman. His doctor attributed Quill's death to a coronary occlusion, the climax of years of heart disease. His condition could not have been helped by his long-run performance as a public scold and Malaprop, whose every appearance was good for scatology and demonology, cracks and castigations, all delivered in a beery Kerry brogue that grew richer year by year. He walked with a limp that he attributed to an English bullet-actually, it was caused by a congenital hip condition later corrected by an operation- and called himself an "elder statesman among public monsters." Mike bluffed...
Most critical was John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, who deplored the decision as "a step toward making the Houses into dormitories." Its effect will be to "diminish the character and continuity of the Houses," while the long-run problem is to increase their character, he said...