Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under examination was a manifesto issued by the liberal-dominated Democratic National Advisory Council (among the members: Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and ex-Senator Herbert Lehman). The council urged greatly expanded federal programs in social security, health, education, agriculture, public works and welfare, area redevelopment and urban renewal, did not attempt to put a price tag on the proposals. Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry Flood Byrd-no member of the council-did. His estimate: $5 billion or $6 billion a year...
Bullitt and David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II professor of Social Sciences and one of the Quincy associates, have been interviewing almost all of the applicants for the new House. Only candidates for Quincy House who are not either accepted or rejected are being interviewed...
Conformity, as Lattimore means it, spans all ranges of human endeavor: economic, social, political, and religious. However, "the fear of being frank and outspoken is much greater among politicians; they have the feeling of a real need for conformity." And it is the political need to conform which Lattimore sees as the real threat to society. It is this need, he points out, which leads to "a paternalistic authoritarian attitude" on the part of a government which "rests on the assumption that a man will believe in communism if he is exposed to it. This seems to me an appalling...
...ideal program would focus on the needs of the non-Honors group in the House, could be freely attended by anyone in the House interested in a particular subject, and would be organized and conducted by tutors in related fields. A "Social Sciences Tutorial," for example, would include economics tutors, government tutors, and social relations tutors. If it were good enough, it might draw a number of English and physics majors to meetings...
Yalies were considered "much less intellectual, conformists, gung ho." Princeton's Tigers were swept aside as "smooth, social-minded, definitely conformist...