Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...popular economist and polished diplomat, a veteran lecturer and fledgling novelist, a former presidential adviser and current cynosure of the Eastern intellectual set, John Kenneth Galbraith has long been a purveyor of predictions. For two decades they have come tumbling from his typewriter and tongue in prodigious quantities, covering every topic from women to world politics. Yet there are few predictions that Galbraith cherishes more?or wishes more that he had never felt com pelled to make?than his warning that a major U.S. involvement in Viet Nam would lead to disaster...
...quick and victorious end. The South Vietnamese government was to be smashed. The Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) was expected to desert to the Viet Cong in wholesale units. The Communists confidently anticipated that the population would welcome the attackers in a great popular uprising. The result would leave the U.S. naked as Giap's only remaining antagonist in Viet...
...perhaps the greatest contemporary American historian of England. Yet he could have become a greater scholar than he was. Instead, Professor Owen directed much of his time into teaching, into Winthrop House, and into the History Department. He was easily one of Harvard's two or three most popular lecturers, and undergraduate and graduate students flocked to him for individual supervision. His warmth and understanding brought him many demands as a Master and administrator. In no way a prima donna, Professor Owen did not refuse burdensome tasks that required sound judgment and sensitivity...
...campaign was followed by the "We Won't Go" advertisements, signed by almost 200 Harvard students. Students who had been unmoved by the questionable morality of the Vietnam War were stung into activism by the personal threat of the draft. SDS had found a popular alternative. In December, 1967, three Harvard SDS members initiated a twice-a-week counselling service, which has processed 15 students per week...
...never held a meeting in January. So a new set of members will take over with structural reforms still hanging somewhere in the future. Two Junior members of the old HUC are sharply critical of the group. "The HUC's effectiveness was not hampered by lack of popular support," Thomas J. Shields '69 says; "no one stopped us from forming policies--we just didn't." And James A. Cooney '69 calls the HUC, "nothing but a poorly attended open seminar...