Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morgenthau's early years may help to explain his views which have led some to think of him as a "wicked preacher of international immorality." Born in Germany (he looks older than 47), he received his education there and started a legal career there. But he left Germany in 1932 and taught for a time in Switzerland and Spain...
Lecturing without notes, Morgenthau gets very absorbed with his topic but the slightest disturbance may threw off his thinking. He stopped a student from standing in the back of Sever 11 because "it makes me think you are just passing through." Morgenthau has been waging a no-decision contest with a Lowell Institute microphone all summer as one of his two Government courses is recorded for rebroadcast next winter...
Much of his class time is devoted to answering students' questions, and Morgenthau is at his best defending himself against criticism. ("It's Russian imperialism that we have to be worried about. Some speak of an inevitable ideological war, but don't take Soviet writings too seriously. Remember the only thing that has withered away in Russia is the opposition...
During his career Morgenthau has been occasionally confused with the former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau who is no relation. The latter formulated the "Morgenthau Plan" which would have turned Germany into an agricultural country...
...Morgenthau Plan contained one sound idea; we had to take away Germany's ability to make war rather than to try to change their minds. Even today in Germany the spirit of democracy is significant by its absence. Those who opposed Hitler talk like the Nazis without knowing...