Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what is wrong with the Moynihan school of thought about international politics. By now, after we've witnessed some of the missteps and inconsistencies of the Carter administration's human rights policies, it should be evident that the attempt to translate values into policy must involve a careful process. It should mean distinguishing between values, deciding which ones we want to emphasize, and then examining how each might be rendered concrete in ways that promise lasting effects. This, in turn, requires a sensitivity to other peoples, and the specificity of their experiences, apart from the political concepts they espouse...
Konrad said he thought negotiations with Brustein had progressed too far for useful discussions of philosophy. The meeting, he added, gave the members "a chance to gripe," but will have "no effect on the long-term process...
William Alfred, a member of the committee and William R. Keenan Jr. professor of English, said yesterday committee members "should not feel left out" of the decision process. "The theater is a funny business," he said. "When a really good person comes along, the administration has to move in fast and grab him. There isn't time for consultation...
Douglas I. Schwalbe, managing director of the Loeb and a member of the committee, said yesterday that Bowersock's report acquainted the committee with "the chronology of the process" between the administration and Brustein. Aside from "interesting details," he added, "the substance of the report was no news to anybody...
...through the prolonged process that Farber did, both my newspaper and I would be belly-up and out of business," Robert M. Porterfield, who earlier this month won a court fight in Alaska very similar to the Farber case, said yesterday. The 33-year-old Porterfield is a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter for the Anchorage Daily News spending a year at Harvard in the Nieman Foundation's program for professional journalists...