Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...join these organizations--or the smaller interventionist groups (in 1939)--but, for the most part, they did not lead them. It was the juniors who had formed the groups, who took the brunt of the arguing and the organizing, who brought Mike Quill of the Transport Workers Union to speak (as the Harvard Student Union, an anti-interventionist group, did in early 1940), or who decided Quill leaned too far to the left and set up a rally featuring Norman Thomas (as a rival group did the same...
...addition to our own programs, we are expected to be responsive to various requests from within the Harvard community to speak about our own areas of direct experience. This may be before undergraduate clubs and special graduate groups, at seminars and panel discussions, and so forth. Most of us have taught a noncredit, extracurricular seminar for undergraduates, on such subjects as "The Racial Dilemma," "Candidate Strategy and Decision-Making," and "Working Group on Poverty in Boston." This opportunity, I think, has been invaluable to us: an experience in teaching and an exposure to learning. We do not masquerade as Faculty...
...serve in government and outside of it, who move back and forth, do so, it seems to me, for two basic reasons. One, to maintain independence. If you have worked in more than one locus successfully, if you have more than one professional home, so to speak, you are not solely dependent on your current job to survive. You don't depend unwhole-somely on that one boss, on that next efficiency report, or on defending the status quo of that one department or agency. You can quit tomorrow if you want or need to, with a place...
...most automatic "in-and-outers," so to speak, are the lawyers and the academicians. They are the most experienced in making the transition back and forth from the government over a period of time because by their professional training they have a haven which they can return to, and one which relates closely to politics and government. This makes it tempting for the Institute to appoint lawyers and teachers as Fellows, but I would argue the opposite -- that the emphasis on selecting people for this experience should be placed on those who do not already have that built-in opportunity...
...Speak what we feel and not what we ought...