Word: research
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course required one mammoth research paper on an individual who shaped public opinion on China, and I threw myself into research. I chose a famous Harvard professor active in public policy and spent hours in the Yenching library, digging up old correspondence, reading everything my subject had written, interviewing him and his colleagues. I would return to my room after the libraries closed and prattle on about my newest theory or the latest letter I had discovered to anyone who would listen. I ignored all my unrelievedly boring coursework and wrote the paper for weeks, finishing just before Christmas vacation...
...Colorado, who wrote a letter to Budget Committee Chairman Edmund Muskie urging him to set up a task force to study both the economic and environmental impact of Carter's $141 billion energy program. It was too vast and too complicated, Hart argued, to be approved without extensive research. "We ought to understand what all this means," he said. Muskie agreed and took the argument to Senator Henry Jackson, who wanted an omnibus energy bill as soon as possible. Despite Jackson, the Hart-Muskie view prevailed, and Jackson's own Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to request...
...Berlin, Marcuse became a confirmed Marxist while studying at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. In the German idealist tradition, he had abnormally high expectations for mankind and came to the conclusion that only revolution could realize them. He was a founder of the leftist Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. With the rise of Hitler, Marcuse and other members of the institute fled to the U.S., where they had a continuing impact on academic opinion...
...left' or 'Communism' or 'subversion' but this egalitarian ideology whose formulas . . . have flourished for 2,000 years." New Right partisans hold that individuals and races are divided by insurmountable barriers of hereditary inequality; in support of this view, they cite the much debated research by such American scientists as Arthur Jensen, William Shockley and Edward O. Wilson. France's New Righters thus call for a "meritocratic" society in which the ablest and most intelligent would rule. As practical steps toward this goal, they suggest a variety of programs ranging from abortion and genetic control...
Like many leftist groups, the New Right traces its origin to the turbulent events of May 1968. In reaction to that upheaval of the left, Benoist and a number of similar-minded rightists organized a counterrevolutionary society called GRECE (a French acronym for Research and Study Group on European Civilization). The organization sponsored publications and seminars on such topics as racism, eugenics and Nietzschean ethics...