Word: powers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berle feels that the recurrent threat of chaos is most pressing in foreign affairs. Pure nationalism, as bequeathed to the modern world by Machiavelli, he sees as the dominant focus of international power still. But its influence is complicated by such things as Communist messianism (waning), and such illusions of order as can be generated by the United Nations. Berle believes power's next institutional forum, internationally, is not likely to be a single world empire but a concert of empires. All of which at least will have a good chance of avoiding nuclear war (the "least immediate...
Berle has no faith in automatic human evolution for the better. His chief bias is an old New Deal planner's intolerance of chaos-which may not prove as intolerable as he thinks. His analysis of power is a great deal more congenial to the American mind than Machiavelli's, which separated power from ethics. In outlining a basis for the post-modern world. Berle makes clear that power succeeds only with the help of philosophers, whose task is to cause man to agree on ideas of good and evil...
...university, the professor who makes periodic trips to Washington is regarded as a supporter of the establishment, a man who puts the pursuit of money or power above pure research, or even-in Hyland's fantasies-the personification of all that is evil in the existing power structure. In Washington, however, his image is that of a theoretical, even radical, critic. His advice is sought on new techniques and research findings, but even if he has just left government service, his policy recommendations are suspect. In short, he provides a link between two worlds that are interdependent but tend...
...enjoy feeling power over myself. I like some of the people on the team, and I can't do anything else around here." he says. "I was going to quit running after my senior year, but I wanted to break 4:20 in the mile, so I ran all summer and I was hooked again. It goes in four-year cycles, and once you're trapped, you're trapped...
...think the position could be defended that a given faculty search committee could well be less competent to judge that quality, which is so critical for the students, than students themselves. As long as the tail doesn't wag the dog, what is wrong with giving students voting power on a search committee in order to have its legitimate interests taken into consideration? Once the appointment is made, the faculty members go back to their offices. The students are expected to attend the new man's lectures...