Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WITH its plain white cover and official seal, the pamphlet from the Senate Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations looked as dull and uninviting as any other Government document. Even the Government Printing Office has its sleepers, however, and Of Specialists and Generalists quickly became the hottest item in Washington. A 71-page compilation of commentary from ancient and modern thinkers, it deals with the question of which is preferable: the specialist with expertise in one field, or the generalist, with broader, if shallower, wisdom. In an age where much rests on the judgment of public men, the question...
...area that embraces a cluster of intellectuals, a substantially Jewish middle class and a smattering of just about every other race and religion. "Unlike most dailies," the Tribune announced, "we will not compete for hard news. Unlike many weeklies, we will be neither a community bulletin board nor a pamphlet for angry manifestations." With a 14-man staff-half black, half white-the paper hopes to reach an equally integrated readership. Its projected circulation...
...return of Dow represents our own powerless on two levels," a pamphlet said yesterday. "First, despite the scale of our protests, we do not yet have power over University policies like recruitment. Second, the link between the University of Wisconsin and Dow demonstrates the 'service station' role that this University plays...
Despite the obvious risks, the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences defiantly challenged the Brezhnev Doctrine in a reply to Soviet allegations that the country had been in the grip of a counterrevolution. The Soviets made the charge in a pamphlet now being distributed in Czechoslovakia. Dismissing the Soviet arguments as "inventions" and "schoolboy sins against logic," the academy, which is composed of the country's leading intellectual figures, warned against the Soviet Union's unwillingness to allow Communism to accommodate to change. Said the academy: "The metaphysical conception of Socialism as a perfect system leads logically to the conclusion...
Then he asked me if he had any support at Harvard. I searched about for something to say, and remembered that some of my friends had distributed an idiotically hyperbolic pamphlet at the Wallace Rally in Boston, in which they urged the voters to sweep Wallace "to the White House and beyond," so I said, "Well, there is one small group which distributed a pamphlet for you at your rally in Boston last week..." and Wallace nodded gravely and said...