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Most of today's economists, however, have been reared in the Keynesian faith, and they lean toward the Democratic Party. The monetarists, on the other hand, tend to identify with Republicans. The ensuing clash of philosophies thus involves high policy, politics and the fervor of a religious schism. Nixon's half-successful jawboning against steel-price increases suggests that Friedman may have lost his most illustrious convert. After his recently televised "conversation," the President remarked casually to a startled TV commentator: "I am now a Keynesian...
...WITH the schism between Faculty members widening, the growth of the caucuses during the Spring crisis seems not only logical but necessary. By taking over University Hall in the Spring of 1969, SDS had forced the Faculty hand on ROTC. By calling in the police, Pusey forced the issue of Faculty power. While conservatives pooh-poohed the existence of an administration separate from the Faculty, President Pusey and his Council of Deans had shown it not only existed but could act powerfully and autonomously...
...failing to portray the Negro as a matter of routine and in the context of the total society, the news media have, we believe, contributed to the black-white schism in this country. They have not communicated to the majority of their audience-which is white-a sense of the degradation, misery and hopelessness of living in the ghetto. They have not shown understanding or appreciation of-and thus have not communicated-a sense of Negro culture...
...WITH the schism between Faculty members widening, the growth of the caucuses during the Spring crisis seems not only logical but necessary. By taking over University Hall last Spring, SDS had forced the Faculty hand on ROTC. By calling in the police, Pusey forced the issue of Faculty power. White conservatives pooh-poohed the existence of an administration separate from the Faculty, President Pusey and his Council of Deans had shown it not only existed but could act powerfully and autonomously...
...first demand, immediate withdrawal of all U.S. resources from Southeast Asia, can best be left out of this discussion. It is the most popular demand, the focus of most strikers' energy up until now, and thus sheds little light on the strike's main schism. It is in fact a pre-eminently national demand, and the ways in which Harvard is implicated are addressed by the third demand...