Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is usually a lag between newly developed social science techniques and their implementation in foreign policy. During the 1950's, the government had fallen far behind. With Kennedy's election, the New Frontier brought many of Harvard's best into the White House, including McGeorge Bundy as special assistant for National Security Affairs. The Kennedy men brought American foreign policy up to date. The first special forces went into Vietnam...
...well as providing a mask for that aid. The point here is, however, that some behavioral scientists in 1954 sensed something wrong with the new scientific method, and wanted time to investigate its long-term perspectives. They did not for a minute doubt U.S. goals, but they realized that social science was becoming a whore...
...suggest that the eleven student members be elected, five from the House on a rotating basis, one from the Freshman class, two from Radcliffe, and three from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, of whom one each shall be chosen by graduate students in the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities. We also recommend, that of the nine faculty members, to be appointed by the Dean of the Faculty, three be selected from the Faculty Council, and the remaining members be named by the Dean after consultation with the Faculty Council...
...member of the Graduate Instruction Committee, a teaching fellow has been added to the Undergraduate Instruction Committee, and the committee administering the Political Economy Lectures Fund includes two delegates of the Graduate Economics Club and one undergraduate chosen by the department. The Chairman of the Department of Social Relations writes, "Early in the fall at a meeting of the Graduate Student Organization. I described the Department's standing committees and invited the Organization to consider where they would like representation. So far they have not chosen to elect representatives to the committees... I think it is likely, however, that enough...
Eventually Sontag discovers that the Vietnamese politeness is utterly unlike American social conventions, which hide the inner self. She writes that their sincerity is "a mode of ethical aspiration." Similarly, despite the way Americans are trained to discredit heroism, she realizes that the nobility and bravery of the Vietnamese are as real as they seem...