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...five-year Project, which is seeking to develop a common language for computers, was the center of much controversy at Harvard last semester, largely because of its Defense Department sponsorship. As a result, only M. I. T. has institutional ties to the Project...
Such content, along with imaginative layouts and some fine writing, helped to earn Atlanta (circ. 24,000) a reputation as the best Chamber of Commerce magazine in the nation, as well as one of the best so-called city magazines under any sponsorship. The same content last month cost Lange his job. It also led to the departure-either through dismissal or sympathetic resignation-of Atlanta's managing editor, two staff writers and five contributors...
Kelman and Ptashne focused their criticism of the Cambridge Project on its Defense Department sponsorship. "It is the function of the University-and especially of its social scientists-," Kelman argued, "to engage in independent critical analysis of the society, including the role of the military within that society. There is some concern that commitments on the order of the Cambridge Project would weaken the University's capacity for such independent analysis...
...Robert Snyder's documentary. The Henry Miller Odyssey. which opened Friday night under the joint sponsorship of the International Association for Cultural Freedom and the Advocate. is as alive, quick, and visually sensitive as Miller himself. Snyder makes no attempt to study Miller's place in literary history, but shows him as the passionate contradictory clownish person...
Under the sponsorship of various Center members, the Center regularly supports the appearance in Cambridge of various foreign intellectuals whose message is characteristically anti-U.S., anti-capitalist, or both. The list in recent years has included Andreas Papandreou, Miguel Wionczek, Helio Jaguaribe, Celso Furtado, and many others. (Celso Furtado, just by the way, is one of those Brazilians we weren't supposed to invite). The appearance of these men is sponsored not because they are anti-U.S., but because they are scholars and intellectuals...