Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lately, Kissinger's mystique and accomplishments have become the object of a kind of revisionist press. The strongest current example is former New York Timesman Tad Szulc's sometimes harsh account of Kissinger's Viet Nam negotiation in the current Foreign Policy (TIME, June 10). In Kissinger's defense, Columnist Marquis Childs complains that to cross-examine Kissinger about wiretaps in a press conference is to act as if "diplomacy should be treated like the police beat." But if the taps flap helps make journalistic skepticism respectable again where Kissinger and his considerable achievements are concerned...
...self-scrutiny and change in the American government in a way that nothing else has in recent years. Replacing Richard Nixon with Gerald Ford wouldn't normally represent an important change--though it might rid the presidency of the petty corruption and vindictiveness that today make it an object for laughter as well as sorrow. But an impeachment trial, with the full presumably cathartic public discussion it would inevitably entail, could help spark a rebirth of democracy and a militance about popular participation in making decisions that hasn't been seen in this country since the New Deal. Nixon...
...Some object to this position, arguing that increasing the admission of women to Harvard is acceptable only so long as the number of men here keeps increasing too. This viewpoint is often based on arguments that alumni contributions will fall off if it isn't adopted. But these arguments come most frequently from alumni who attribute their own sexism to all their classmates--and in the last few classes, Radcliffe graduates' pledges have topped those of their Harvard counterparts. Worse yet, this viewpoint reflects an idea that educated men are more valuable than educated women. If alumni who reject this...
President Bok kept the Leonard committee's report secret for several weeks and has declined to meet with members of the United Committee of Third World Organizations and Faculty members who object to the report. Bok's reticence is inexcusable; the objections to the report are well-founded. The Afro Department is understaffed and desperately needs the research-gathering help an official tie with the institute could provide, in order to increase the quality of its teaching and to attract high-quality black scholars...
...Harvard Economics Department cemented its status as an immovable object even more firmly this past year. For nearly a decade, reformers have tried to get the department to recognize Marxian economics as more than just a curiousity. This year, as in all the past years, the department refused...