Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course required one mammoth research paper on an individual who shaped public opinion on China, and I threw myself into research. I chose a famous Harvard professor active in public policy and spent hours in the Yenching library, digging up old correspondence, reading everything my subject had written, interviewing him and his colleagues. I would return to my room after the libraries closed and prattle on about my newest theory or the latest letter I had discovered to anyone who would listen. I ignored all my unrelievedly boring coursework and wrote the paper for weeks, finishing just before Christmas vacation...
LeBoutillier's Harvard is a frightful place, inhabited by the likes of--God forbid--Charles Warren Professor of History Frank Freidel, that "liberal" who dared to interject a personal opinion about welfare into a lecture on FDR. The author is outraged. He is also surrounded. His sophomore history tutor, he says, is a Marxist. The tutor is quoted as uttering such realistic phrases as: "Jesus, how heavy, how heavy, how incredibly relevant and heavy," and, better tailored to LeBoutillier's needs: "America the Beautiful my ass. It should be America the home of fascism...
There is something bright and burning about this Republican camera nut and son-in-law of the late Dirksen. It is Baker's season. In six months he has come up ten to twelve points in the opinion polls. In the Kentucky hills and along the clear streams of Utah, when they take time to think about politics, there are unusual numbers of queries now about Howard Baker...
...mankind and came to the conclusion that only revolution could realize them. He was a founder of the leftist Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. With the rise of Hitler, Marcuse and other members of the institute fled to the U.S., where they had a continuing impact on academic opinion...
...administration" in America co-opted and disarmed dissenters, he said. Giving them freedom to dissent was a way of allowing them to let off steam without threatening the power establishment. Thus tolerance was a form of intolerance, one of those paradoxes that abound in Marcuse. He wrote: "Freedom (of opinion, of assembly, of speech) becomes an instrument for absolving servitude...