Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particularly surprised when the Registrar's office released its preliminary estimate of the concentration preferences of the Class of 1979 last Tuesday. In general, the freshmen showed true to form, choosing the traditionally popular majors that have for years served as stepping-stones to graduate school...
...James S. Duesenberry, chairman of the Economics Department, said after the statistics were released that career interest isn't the sole reason the department continually topes the list of popular majors. The 158 freshmen who opted into the department this year, he said, are also responding the current high level of interest in economics throughout the country...
...would be wrong to take as something paralleling Kissinger's foreign policy, which is more flexible, but no less conservative in basis. Moynihan's practice, at the UN and in the media, made and makes a difference to American foreign policy, only to the extent that it restores popular confidence in an aggressive American imperium. The Moynihan blasts at third world despots were never designed to win over the underdeveloped countries--a few words from Moynihan would hardly send them scurrying except in the expectations of a lunatic, to sing the praises of General Motors plants, World Bank investment...
...ideologue with popular backing Moynihan is dangerous. As a serious theorist he is absurd: he denounces OPEC, as is de rigeur on the American center-right, for its raising of oil prices and he extolls the world free market. Yet there is no free market; monopolistic multinational corporations control international trade in manufacturing, charging inflated prices and thus adding to their profit margins. Third world producers of food and raw materials have heretofore engaged in competition with each other to their detriment, over-producing and lowering prices for their goods. In the 20 years between...
...condemnation of Soviet totalitarianism. working class anger, dormant for the moment because of apathy and Wallace's paralysis, could revive again under Moynihan or some other figure--this time as the servant of a nationalist appeal meant to increase the power of the multinational corporations but satisfying popular needs for an overriding sense of meaning. The national case of disillusion has been somewhat mitigated by the pseudo-religious politics of Carter and Jerry Brown. A presidential campaign with or without Moynihan but based on his theme for getting tough with the rest of the world could make those guys look...