Word: praiseed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While much of his attention at a Kennedy School of Government symposium on September 5 focused on an airline hijaking in Pakistan, Secretary of Defense Casper W. Weinberger '38 took time to praise the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense initiative (SDI) as the best, realistic deterrent to nuclear war.
Falling into third place is Melvin King, whose total community involvement is worthy of great respect and praise. But King lacks the pragmatism that is needed to make a dent in Congress. His utopian vision is not a realistic one for America of the late 1980s.
Glowing Praise
John Rawls, Conant University Professor, whose opus "A Theory of Justice" has garnered widespread praise, Robert Nozick, Porter Professor of Philosophy, and Thomas M. Scanlon, professor of philosophy, lightly sparred on the role of government in a symposium titled "The Individual Good and Political Philosophy."
While much of his attention at a Kennedy School of Government symposium yesterday focused on an airline hijacking in Pakistan, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 took time to praise the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) as the best, realistic deterrent to nuclear war.