Word: musts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better get involved pretty soon in reforming their own universities, not only by governing them after years of neglect but by giving campuses the kind of intellectual soul that creates moral authority. "There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools," argues Robert Hutchins. "They must be centers of criticism. If you turn the university into a trade school or a branch of the knowledge industry, there is no real possibility of maintaining it as a center. The parts of a multiversity have no center." To help broaden specialists' minds, Hutchins proposes to halt university expansion...
Many intellectuals obviously must be involved in government. It is not enough to argue that such work risks intellectual compromise. Of course it does, but the greater risk is a government without intellectuals. Who wants, for example, a CIA run entirely by soldiers and policemen? In 1965 Robert Wood, head of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, considered the problem that such involvement means for intellectuals: "Given the uncertainties of actual influence possessed, its effectiveness and appropriateness, and the welter of motivations that compel the intellectual, it is not surprising that his present role is tentative and tormented...
...fought for righteousness); the others felt good (they had given a full hearing to the dovish opposition), and there was minimal unpleasantness." Historian Eric Goldman, who left the White House in 1966 after nearly three unhappy years as President Johnson's "intellectual-in-residence," feels that the intellectual must go further than token dissent: "If you disagree with a basic policy of a President and you are working for him, you have two choices: 1) try to change his policy but go on working for him; 2) quit...
Wherever he works, in fact, the intellectual's responsibilities are the same. "You must dedicate yourself," says Hutchins, "to trying to understand things, and you must do this without regard for your source of financing." Clearly, this means that intellectuals should not keep quiet. Are they also obliged to propose alternatives to policies that they condemn? Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti believes that "the foremost contribution of intellectuals is dissent. To be opposed to the atomic bomb is not exactly negative thinking." It is also easy. The harder task is to be constructive about problems that are tougher because they...
...have troubles enough grappling with President Nixon's belt-tightening budget, U.S. Budget Director Robert Mayo must endure a new nickname around Washington. Recently he briefed newsmen and legislators on the President's fiscal policies. A local television station carried the report, but in a fit of homonymous confusion a TV technician flashed a picture of Red China's Mao Tse-tung. Now the Budget Director's unofficial title is "Mr. Chairman" Mayo...