Word: mansfield
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...Well, it's much easier for the students now; they don't have to be such accomplished typists," says Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53. "I remember that getting your senior thesis typed was a real trial. Most students didn't type well enough to type 100 pages for a senior thesis, so you had to hire a typist and you had to reserve one in advance--several months ahead...
...also had to finish your manuscript about a week before it was due in order to give it to the typist to handle it. That was a terrific nuisance," Mansfield says...
...Mansfield, who says Keyes matured as he went from the College to graduate school, notes that Keyes subscribed to the view that cultural changes had contributed to the rise in single-parent families and to the increase in welfare recipients, an idea championed by such conservative thinkers as Harvard government professors James Q. Wilson and Edward Banfield...
...political theory comes from the American founding, the Declaration and the Constitution, so it's that sort of peculiar American conservatism, which begins with the Revolution and continues with the Constitution that was quite new to the political experience of republics before ours," Mansfield says...
...Mansfield adds that Keyes' identity as an African-American "probably gave him greater disgust for liberalism than otherwise might have been the case. The attitude of the liberals towards blacks was dominated by their sense of guilt and not by any careful consideration of what was good either for blacks or for America, and that's probably still the case...