Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...October 1, Adam K. Goodheart wrote an Opinion piece ("PC Past and Present") in which he compared "the chic anti-PC brigade, circa 1991" to a white supremacist writer of the 1960s. He even called the writer, Carleton Putnam, "the Dinesh D'Souza of Jackson, Mississippi, circa 1961," in a reference to the opponent of political correctness and author of Illiberal Education...
...doing so, Goodheart emphasizes style and ignores substance. For example, Putnam condemned "the idea that all races are equal in their adaptability to our Western culture." D'Souza and other opponents of PC, in contrast, advocate exposing students of all races to the best of both Western and non-Western cultures...
...want to help them better use existing data, and enhance training in accumulating data, so these nations can make better decisions about their health programs," said Eliot T. Putnam '61, a deputy director of the project...
...Putnam said that he expects the project to be a success...
...expect the project to go well because it is terrific idea and it will fulfill an important need in these nations," said Putnam...