Word: social
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field of non-government aid, Bender found occasional "overtones of public relations, propaganda, self-aggrandizement or corporate recruiting." Although he called increased Federal aid a "social imperative for our kind of society," he warned of attempts to "limit freedom of inquiry and expression," offering the NDEA loyalty provision as an "ominous note...
...long list of 'questionable practices" which have developed in aid programs not controlled by colleges, Bender included grants that attempt to influence what a college teaches or the point of view of a recipient about social, political, or religious issues; and fixed stipends. With little or no regard to need...
...September, Plaza gathered 1,000 Catholics, most of them Peronistas, to open a "Christian Social Week." They rattled the walls with hymns, cries of "Viva Peron!" and "Viva Eva!" Early in October, Plaza blamed the 1955 church burnings on Masons, not Peronistas. Next day he led Peronistas before a visiting Vatican cardinal to petition the Pope to lift Peron's excommunication...
...years ago with a Ford Foundation grant, the Casbah (grants to date: $10.3 million) was built near Stanford University because scholars liked the isolation and their wives liked the weather. Already 233 fellows have passed through, representing 52 institutions and eleven foreign countries. Director Ralph Tyler, onetime dean of social sciences at the University of Chicago, has no trouble recruiting. His fat waiting list now includes 5,000 nominees...
Needs & Wants. Not all Casbah scholars are social scientists. Recent alumni include M.I.T.'s noted Mathematician Claude Shannon and Literary Critic Mark Schorer, who worked on his biography of Novelist Sinclair Lewis. "Here I need no library," said Harvard Linguist Roman Jakobson. "If I have a question in psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, literature, I just go down a few doors and knock: 'May I come...