Word: majored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questions about the real reasons for the institution of the Center. In the 1954 Committee's report, of the 60 page of recommendations, only one deals with a possible Center. Moreover, the Visiting Committee judging the recommendations found the Center interesting but not essential. Since many of the major recommendations of the Committee were never followed, I wondered why Bundy decided to pick up the idea two years later...
...Ford Foundation had funded the Committee and four others like it in major universities. I wondered what they had expected to find. But more than that, the tenor of the report seemed concerned with questions far different from the present interests of the Center. The report said that the Center should look into "Cultural Differences and International Understanding." They were also interested, on a scholarly level I suppose, in "Domestic Determinants of Foreign Policy." The main problems, from the eyes of the behavioral scientists, seemed to be not enough researchers, not enough money, and not enough time to think about...
...other myths at the same time. The first is about Pakistan. Just after the Center issued its Tenth Annual Report in 1968, in which they praised the "progress of the economic policy and performance" of the Pakistani government, that government was overthrown after days of bloody rioting in major cities. The new rulers were from the same class, but plainly some one was unhappy...
...said his committee did not intend to operate in this manner, and added that, even if the amendment passed, it would not be humanly possible to eliminate disciplinary considerations completely from the summer review, since the comittee would have read the newspapers, and would thus be aware of any major violations by a scholarship student...
...next major argument concerns tactics. I will admit that I have never understood tactics. They have always seemed to me a way to forget about getting from one place to another. The argument says that blowing up buildings does not organize anyone. I will respond that blowing up buildings is not intended to organize anyone. It is intended to blow up buildings. Those people who want to organize should denounce those who blow up buildings. They could claim that someone from Nepal...