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...hustings, Pompidou plugged the Gaullist theme that France must polarize or perish. Campaigning in his bleak, mountainous home region of Cantal, he explained: "The choice is simple, dear friends. It must be made between totalitarian Communism and liberty and democracy." Meanwhile, all across France, Gaullist campaign workers sought to rekindle the revulsion that the average Frenchman felt toward the June violence by showing a specially prepared 30-minute film of the rioting on the Left Bank. In city after city, some 8,000 student volunteers, who call themselves "Youth for Progress," worked frantically for De Gaulle, painting Gaullist slogans...
Kaysen is definitely not the fund-raising, nine-to-five type, but he thinks the adventure is worth it: a community of scholars free to think without the pressures of classes and graduate students and the publish-or-perish syndrome. Much of his administrative work is dull, but Kaysen is willing to endure it for a chance to transform some of his ideas into reality...
...science, both physical and social. But now, unfortunately, scientific advance seems to contribute more to our capabilities for destroying civilization than to building a better world. The scientist, by tradition reserving judgment on the moral implications of his work, will continue to publish, and perhaps we shall all perish...
...reservations? I am not proud of what seem to be my principal motives--intellectual fascination with a complex and challenging problem, the desire to be recognized for proposing an improved analysis of and solution to the problem, and the well-known need in academic circles to publish or perish...
...science, both physical and social. But now, unfortunately, scientific advance seems to contribute more to our capabilities for destroying civilization than to building a better world. The scientist, by tradition reserving judgment on the moral implications of his work, will continue to publish, and perhaps we shall all perish...