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DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN now has the dubious honor of being ambassador to India, a post that is apparently a far cry from his previous work on the Urban Affairs Council. His latest appointment confirms his double role of academic savant and government servant--he has served the Federal government's executive branch nearly continuously since 1961. Like his predecessor, John Kenneth Galbraith, the most visible member of the Economics Department, Moynihan has added New Delhi to the well-tread Cambridge-Washington route. If he follows Galbraith's lead as the art collector by bringing back more Indian miniature paintings from...
...India Moynihan must deal with the Malthusian problems of population and food supply, but in Washington he faced an equivalent problem for a developed country--the so-called issue of poverty amid plenty...
...guiding rationale appears to be that sisters can begin to approach the task of self-definition and self-direction with definite focus. It is an excellent idea, and the title in particular encompasses the dilemma in which we find ourselves. For example, we watched our seduction by the Moynihan myth of the black matriarchy. And continually, still, we miss the union and explication of our perceptions of the reality through which we are living, and through which we wish to live; simply because it is so easy to accept the idealizations, those titular and usually meaningless idealizations of our being...
...members once active in the Federal Government have not usually escaped the entanglements that captured them in Washington. The return to Harvard of men who have become political celebrities generally marks only a shift in their public arena; they make no real recommitment to an academic life. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's recent interlude with us, which just ended as he took off for New Delhi, is one example of this, and John Kenneth Galbraith's current position as a seer-in-residence rather than as an economics professor is another. It seems questionable that the Henry Kissinger that Harvard would...
...Moynihan introduced himself to Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), chairman of the Committee, as "one of the original Fulbright fellows," and told the Committee that U.S.-Indian relations are "much warmer, much better than they have been," the Boston Globe reported Tuesday...