Word: responding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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POLITICIANS and intellectuals have always been the uneasiest of bedfellows. Members of the academic community constantly complain that too little attention is paid to their insights on policy matters; party stalwarts respond to academic criticism by observing that John Kenneth Galbraith gets out very few votes in East Boston on election...
There will be pressures, as Eckstein points out, to divert money back into the defense establishment. The cities have to respond by mobilizing counterpressure...
Maslow speculated that if physical nudity were added, "people would go away more spontaneous, less guarded, less defensive, not only about the shape of their behinds, but freer and more in nocent about their minds as well." That clinched it for Bindrim. If some patients respond better in groups than to individual therapy, he reasoned, then nude groups might be even more effective...
...commonest defense against dissent is to recognize only the most irresponsible part of it. Policy-makers who fail to respond to responsible dissent are their own indictment: they respond only to the irresponsible because they have no response for the responsible...
...common defense. The government responds scathingly to simplistic, frustrated placards of anti-war demonstrators, but does not respond to thoughtful dissent by men like Galbraith, Kennan, or Schlesinger. And the Harvard Administration similarly responds only to dissent about parietals as if it were all shallow adolescent whining. The government says dialogue with its critics is worthless; and Harvard administrators say that the parietals issue is "boring...