Word: pollak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While he was at it, Connally also delivered his first Gustav Pollak Lecture for the Kennedy School of Government...
...JOHN F. KENNEDY School of Government's selection of former Texas Gov. John B. Connally as this year's Gustav Pollak lecturer is deplorable. In inviting Connally to deliver this prestigious address, the Kennedy School conferred an honor on a man who in his political career has been distinguished primarily for his reactionary political ideology, his shady campaign practices and his opportunism...
...Connally's unsuitability as the Pollak lecturer stems less from his retrograde ideology than from his questionable conduct in public life. Connally is perhaps the only politician in history ever to have been acquitted of receiving a bribe that another man--dairy lobbyist Jake Jacobsen--was convicted of having given him. It seems more than a little ironic that only half a decade after the breaking of the Watergate scandal one of Richard Nixon's closest associates should be lecturing aspiring public servants on the "uses and abuses" of government...
...willful disregard on the selection committee's part of the realities of American politics. Connally has spent the past year traveling around the country, making speeches in an attempt to revive the ailing Republican Party and, not incidentally, to establish himself as a presidential candidate in 1980. The Pollak honorarium, coming only a year after Connally's appointment as a visiting fellow of the Institute of Politics, will only serve to strengthen his ties to Harvard, and thus enhance his national stature. It is hard to understand why the Kennedy School's selection committee did not feel serious qualms about...
...Kafka's nightmares obsolete. And we have lived so long with the absurd, retailed for so many years by so many depressing Frenchmen, that it bores us. But Franz Kafka's works still serve the primary function he described in a 1904 letter to his friend Oskar Pollak: "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside...