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These are only a few of the proposals worth considering; there are dozens of others, and the Committee should discuss them all. It should not be afraid of unorthodox conclusions, indeed it should welcome them. For the survival of a general education program depends not only on the ability to effect certain changes, but also on the necessity of attracting definite Faculty support. Only if the Committee's report provokes serious discussion among the Faculty and College as a whole will a strong general education proram become a reality; on an issue as significant as the future of undergraduate education...
...accounts of his work may be taken at face value-- and there is every reason to suppose that they may, since they have not been in the least covert--his drug research is legitimate clinical psychology. The one, nearly fatal, handicap his research suffers is that it is unorthodox...
...departure again set in motion one of the most peripatetic newsmen in the U.S. press. Since 1921, Denson has filled slots on a press wire service, five magazines (including seven years as Newsweek editor), a radio network and five dailies in three cities. At the Trib, his splashy style, unorthodox headlines and capsule summations of the news made the paper sprightlier in appearance...
...Williams' contention that whenever government infringes on civil rights "it begins with the weak and the friendless, or the scorned and the degraded, or the nonconformist and the unorthodox." Of the major civil liberties cases that have reached the U.S. Supreme Court in the past decade, most of the defendants "have been accused of murder, rape, arson, narcotics offenses, bootlegging and membership in the Communist Party...
...just how much should go for M-14 rifles, how much for ICBMs. Before McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were accustomed-as one New Frontiersman puts it-"to render advice as though it were engraved on stone." Today, the Whiz Kids assemble the facts and the alternatives-including unorthodox possibilities-so that the Secretary of Defense can grasp the whole problem and make up his mind for himself...