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...Harvard cuts down on funds for scholars like Jim Breeden, but it finds a job for Richard Nixon's house philosopher and friend, Pat Moynihan," Kozol, a writer and critic of American education, said...
...difficulty of the new doctrine, as with the old," writes Moynihan, "lies in the uses to which it is put. If man was once seen as too autonomous, the therapeutic ethic depicts him as too dependent. If the tendency was once to exaggerate rationality, it is now the opposite-to exaggerate dependency...
...reaction-spending more and more public money on public programs aimed at alleviating national frustrations-could go too far, Moynihan warns. At the moment, that leaves us with only a vague sense of what we should do, of what direction social policy should take. That implies a lessening of faith in government intervention and suggests a need for caution before engineering new interventions in our lives...
...Crap!" cries Scheer. "That guy never reads a book. He's a politician. He's...he's..." Silence on the other end of the phone for a moment. "He's Sam Huntington! He's Pat Moynihan!" Now Scheer, who as an Institute of Politics guest at Harvard led the famous demonstration which kept Robert MacNamara captive for hours, is livid. The phone falls. "You don't believe me? Read the interview again. He's a return to the politics of the fifties, the paranoia of the Cold War, enemies everywhere, too much dissent. I know he believes that there...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, professor of Government, led a slate of five Jackson delegates to victory in the Bronx. The sixth delegate elected in that district was the area's Congressman, Johnathan Bingham, who is pledged to Udall...