Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CRISIS. I have considered myself a radical since last winter, and a revolutionary since last April: a "cultural" revolutionary, as opposed to a social revolutionary. I became convinced that necessary change in our society requires more change in the nature of people than a social revolution can generate. It seemed most imperative that we directly change ourselves and our way of living; that we create the new life, rather than try to attain...
...have encountered compelling arguments against the possibility of a cultural revolution before a social one. For instance, I came to believe that educational institutions need immediate, drastic reforms because they exert tremendous influence upon the nature of people. The universities seemed the obvious place to start. But then I read Ridge-way's Closed Corporations and realized how thoroughly the universities have been bought by government and big business, those powerful opponents of any revolution. After that, I coudn't convince myself-honestly-that anything more than token change could be achieved from within the educational system. And what about...
...million, five-year Cambridge Project. funded by the Defense Department, uses M. I. T. computers to correlate social 'science data. Harvard has been invited to join M. I. T. on the governing board of the Project, which has been attacked by radicals as serving what they call American imperialism...
parietals, but by denying the Houses and the Freshman class the right to decide their own social regulations they also deny the intent of the Fainsod Report...
Fainsod's plan had a strict quota system, with six members each from 'he Humanities, the Natural Sciences, and the Social Sciences. But some supporters of the amendment arged removal of the quotas, claiming that a PR system would still represent departmental interests...