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Word: nationale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the openly radical proposals of socialization won approval from up to a third, Harvard students reserve their overwhelming support for the "liberal" status quo. Two-thirds support such "Welfare State" projects as Social Security and Federal regional power development. Not suprisingly, current "liberal" proposals receive similar impressive backing: four...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Moderate Liberals' Predominate Politically | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

Fully a fifth of the undergraduates, however, support such "conservative" stands as reducing the current inflation, even at the price of unrelieved unemployment, and barring government wage and price controls except in time of national emergency

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Moderate Liberals' Predominate Politically | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

Within the College, as elsewhere, Federal aid is rapidly gaining the status of a magic word. Surrounded by a climate of "liberalism," most Harvard undergraduates seem ready to accept increased Federal activity in almost any area of national life--from schoolrooms to hospitals, from housing developments to theatres, and from...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Moderate Liberals' Predominate Politically | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

Economics 1, with the greatest enrollment of any College course is a case in point. Using a popular text-book by M.I.T.'s Paul A. Samuelson, the course lays great stress on Federal fiscal policy (e.g. "countercyclical spending" by the national government to help offset periodic business slumps). Lecturers include...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Moderate Liberals' Predominate Politically | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

Much less successful at Harvard are Newsweek (a sixth read it), David Lawrence's conservative U.S. News and World Report (an eighth), Max Ascol's Reporter (a tenth). Only a twentieth read either the liberal Nation or New Republic, and a mere handful look at Bill Buckley's infant National...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Moderate Liberals' Predominate Politically | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

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