Word: pr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rare moment of sympathy for members of the Administration, Peretz said that it was unfair to put proiminent politicians on a platform and ask them to participate in a public dialogue, because they couldn't be expected to present more than a simplified PR image of their compliciated political lives. "If people come here to talk they must be able to be honest, and in order to be honest they must either have a certain distance from their subject or subtlety of speech." Instead of political or ceremonial events, Peretz says he would like to hear Dean Acheson speaking...
...inter-disciplinary character of the Joint Center was originally regarded as one of its chief attractions. The PR brochure declares that, "If inter-dependent people create inter-linked problems, inter-disciplinary scholarship may be a prerequisite for effective action." Members of the Center are inclined to smile at such language. Most regard the institution as a kind of "academic holding company," designed to attract contributions and contracts that would not ordinarily be offered to individual researchers of university departments...
...school itself is partly to blame. The high minded rhetoric of its PR literature, with its talk of "Princeton in the Nation's Service" and its promise of smooth sailing for all, encourages students to think they can "beat the hierarchy." When they find out what a Master's Degree from the Woodrow Wilson School is really worth in Washington, they are rightly disillusioned. They begin to wonder if a Law Degree might not have been a more sensible stepping-stone into government after...
Many of the mysteries surrounding the Woodrow Wilson School evolve from that year's "magnificent anonymous gift," as it is inevitably described in the PR literature. Before '61, the school's graduate program was merely a bureaucratic unit. Since then, $35 million has provided a building, a faculty, a curriculum, and a massive scholarship program...
...magic than ever in Western Europe, and Bobby's political hosts scored more points with their constituents close at hand than New York's junior Senator did with his far away. He spent 70 minutes with De Gaulle, and even if he only said, "Bonjour, Monsieur le Président, il fait froid aujourd'hui," the fact of the meeting, as Marshall McLuhan might observe, was more significant than its content...