Word: moynihan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tufts is also expected to give Harvard some trouble. Dan "Benign Neglect" Moynihan is a threat in the 880, mile and two mile run. Dan Ryan, the Jumbos miler, ran a 4:06 last year and may be back, although he is reportedly just getting into shape...
...repeatedly disrupted by catcalls; one young scientist even hurled a tomato at the Minnesota Senator (the missile missed). Muttered the tomato thrower as he was led off by police: "I could have hit him between the eyes if I wanted to." In a counterprotest, former Presidential Aide Daniel Moynihan, now a professor at Harvard and a newly elected A.A.A.S. vice president, angrily canceled his own planned speech (title: "Waste Disposal in an Age of Rubbish") and indignantly told a press conference: "I'm a political scientist and I smell fascism...
Some A.A.A.S. leaders sympathized so strongly with the dissenters that they went out of their way to praise the petulant protests. Environmentalist Barry Commoner, who is a member of the association's board of directors, rebuked Moynihan for his walkout and said that the protests against Humphrey may well have stiffened the Senator's disapproval of U.S. policies in Southeast Asia, which Commoner also has heartily denounced. Added retiring A.A.A.S. President Athelstan Spilhaus: "If there weren't these disruptions, it would mean that these meetings were not significant...
...previous book, The Omni-Americans, Murray was critical of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's study of the Negro family ("Not once does he cite any Negro assets that white people might find more attractive than black subservience"). He also took off after Kenneth Clark's Dark Ghetto, whose emphasis on black wretchedness, said Murray, "easily exceeds that in most of the books written by white racists to justify segregation...
...elegant. There is a large anteroom with a conference table. One wall is decorated with campaign cartoons. His inner sanctuary has a comfortable warmth. On the President's desk is a copy of Herman Wouk's new novel The Winds of War, a gift from the author. "Pat Moynihan and Bill Safire pick books for me. In the reading field I am basically a history buff?history and biography. If I pick out anything to reread, such as Sandburg's Lincoln, I mark pages I like. It's poetry, of course...