Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEET CHARITY. Shirley MacLaine is sometimes cute, sometimes arch in this overblown musical about a dance-hall hostess searching for love. A lot of money and a lot of energy have been expended on this superproduction, and most of both has gone to waste...
There are still fine trains departing every day for Chicago, service to Washington is excellent, ditto for New England. And if the Government would divert to railroads some of the money it pours into airline and highway subsidy, we might even approximate the excellent train service one enjoys in Europe...
Barzun believes that the university has become too heavily dependent on the federal government and foundations for its money. But the large donors have created more problems than they have solved: "So far, the new university desired by the nation has been stimulated by its suitors but not fed." The universities, now grown huge with little control over their parts, are forced into the business of business to make money--"the mirage of owning factories and handling patent rights." This gets the university into problems that SDS has recently brought to the surface at Harvard--should the university...
Another advantage of this new university in Washington would be the proximity to federal money itself. Lipset writes, "Presumably distinguished scholars in Washington will find it easier to secure funds, or, conversely, will be offered funds since they will be the people best known to those in control of money in Washington." Lipset admits that the ease that the faculty members will have in getting federal money may cause hard feelings in other universities. He suggests, then, that the new school "have as a rule that no member of the faculty could consult for a government agency or handle government...
...Harvard money in ghettoes--Calkins says (meanacingly) money would have to be cut from somewhere else--like the Afro-American Studies Department dollar underpass...