Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change Washington's mood was one reason for Carter's sudden decision to head for the Middle East. Having been stung by his decline in the opinion polls, Carter was reaching for a dramatic foreign venture. By going to Cairo and Jerusalem on short notice, he might satisfy those critics who have been clamoring for him to "do something somewhere...
Michael R. Powtrell '80 said yesterday he would be reluctant to serve during a war, but said he would fight in extreme circumstances. "If people I loved were killed I don't know if I could resist," Pontreli said. Student Opinion on U.S. Military Service Do you favor the reinstitution of the draft? If there were an all-out, nonnuclear war, do you think our present voluntary military forces would be adequate? If there were a selective service program instituted now, would you serve in any or all of the following capacities? YES NO NO OPINION YES NO NO OPINION...
...fact "transcends the private interests of individual students and faculty members." One can recognize the protofascist shortcut developing here. Instead of the democratic process of individuals influencing groups and the institution, we have the institution influencing individuals. Everywhere in Bok's essay, collective expression is abhorred; isolated individual opinion is celebrated. Divide and conquer is the rule...
With these two assumptions. Bok seems to maintain an artificial separation of theory and practice. Not only must academic pursuit of knowledge be protected from the field of application, but also, our precious opiate, freedom of opinion and speech "as individuals" (Bok's emphasis), must be protected from the possibility that it might really influence policy...
...Harvard's stands influence our whole society. Justice Lewis Powell's majority opinion in the Bakke case, for instance, hinged on Harvard's friend-of-the-court brief. The Cambridge-Washington shuttle, institutionalized during President Kennedy's administration, shapes public policy to aid in education, tax rules on charitable giving, and myriad other areas...