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...nation Sukarno precariously governed was precariously split politically. There are four major and nearly equal parties: 1) the Nationalists, created by Sukarno and sustained by a horde of underpaid government bureaucrats; 2) Masjumi, a Moslem party of small traders and urban businessmen with a pronounced Western outlook; 3) the Orthodox Scholars, a village-based and deeply conservative Moslem group dominated by religious teachers; 4) the Communists...
Author Barr's hero is one Professor Henry Schneider, cynical head of the history department at a Midwestern university. Like his colleagues, he is underpaid. Like many of them, he is henpecked. Unlike most of them, he wonders what happened to the old dream that leads men like him to try to set intellectual fires in the minds of junior Philistines who have no intention of getting singed. And since Purely Academic is cast as fiction, Henry also lusts after the Georgia peach whose husband is the drearily ambitious head of the economics department...
...also called for increases in salaries for science teachers, whom he termed "shockingly underpaid," and said that he considered some form of Federal subsidy to salaries to be feasible...
Physicist Edward Teller may have said that U.S. scientists are relatively underpaid. What does he have to say about Russia's underpaid scientists, or are they overpaid? The trouble with us is that we just don't find an end for pricing money. I am sure that Russia does not spend so many billion dollars as we do to lift a pinhead...
...world could be found-here in the U.S. ... Ten years from now the best scientists in the world will be found in Russia." His reasoning: the Russians treat science as a religion, and Red scientists are highly honored. In the U.S. both scientists and teachers are relatively underpaid and underrespected, he wrote, and there are few incentives for the brightest youngsters to take up scientific careers...