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That warning from Sociologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan seems to be more urgent now than when he wrote it as an adviser to President Johnson in 1965. Then, a rapidly expanding economy and vigorous Government efforts to curb racial discrimination helped an unprecedented proportion of U.S. blacks to start closing educational, occupational and economic gaps that separated them from whites. This progress recently seems to have been halted or even reversed. A disturbingly large number of blacks are in relatively worse positions than they were three years...
...foreign end of Richard Nixon's White House had and has some of the same spirit under Henry Kissinger. At first there was even a whiff of it in domestic matters, when Pat Moynihan, a rollicking Irish professor who dared break open champagne in his office, held sway, devising the family assistance plan and nurturing revenue sharing...
...author of the Administration's infelicitous phrase "benign neglect" ought to know when to leave well enough alone, and that is exactly what U.S. Ambassador to India Daniel P. Moynihan counseled from New Delhi not long ago in a wry cable to the State Department. The Agency for International Development had made a promise to the Indian government in April that an AID apartment-dining complex would be turned over to India. Two weeks ago Moynihan made good on the promise. Later the same day the State Department cabled him to hold up the gift, hoping to retain...
...quite understand that it might appear that we are off our rocker out here," tweaked Moynihan, "but it comes down to a simple matter of good faith." He and his family, Moynihan vowed, had tried to take advantage of the increasingly unused facility, even dining now and again-all alone-in its restaurant ("best Chinese cuisine in town"). Continued the Ambassador: "If we could turn it over to the Smithsonian it would make a marvelous memorial to a certain kind of mentality. But that isn't really practical, is it? I don't need it so I have...
Like their unpoor and unyoung counterparts in Middle America, New York City Jews are losing their New Deal liberalism with alarming speed. Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Education and Urban Politics, and Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure, argue in Beyond the Melting Pot that a good deal of the growing conservatism of the city's Jewish population is a reaction against the increasing assertiveness of the black population...