Word: trosper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ronald L. Trosper's interview with Wilson on the problems of "The President and the Bureaucracy" is necessary reading if only because of the recent criticism of the anti-poverty program. Wilson doubts that the government can effectively man organizations to combat discrimination and poverty or solve problems of urban affairs...
...Harvard Policy Committee yesterday elected the following officers: Ronald L. Trosper '67, of Dunster House and Milwaukee, Wis., Chairman; and Richard E. Hammond '67 of Leverett House and Madison, Wis., Secretary...
Students going to Harvard's field station in Chiapas, Mexico, are Mary H. Anschuetz '68 of Briggs Hall and Alton, Ill.; John B. Haviland '66 of Leverett House and New Orleans, La.; Judith E. Merkel '68 of Warner House and Garrison, Md.; Ronald L. Trosper '67 of Dunster House and Milwaukee...
Ronald L. Trosper '67 seems to refute his label of moderate. After haltingly trying to separate the multiple goals of the U.S. and pointing out the need to pursue those ends with successful means, Trosper offers an immoderate conclusion. If the U.S. is to intervene in Southeast Asia, it must learn to do so effectively, even if in Vietnam this "would have involved great manipulation of the Saigon government." Such a stand is certainly an active form of moderation...
...plot (faithfully reproduced from the John Le Carre novel by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper) is complicated. Spies and counterspies. British agents trying to bump off Communist agents and vice versa. Loyalties are obscured because you don't know who's working for whom; sympathies are initially nonexistant because the good guys are every bit as ruthless as the bad. Control, head of British intelligence, is well done by Cyril Cusack with his tea pots and easy acceptance of Cold War expediencies. He says to Leamas (Burton): "Our policies are peaceful, but our methods can't afford to be less...