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...assassination. He was charged with providing the new President with a flow of ideas; among those he helped shape was the Johnsonian conception of the Great Society. He also served, more and more uneasily, as a general liaison man, trying to improve relations between the brilliant but unread Texan President and the intellectual community. "Congratulations and condolences," an academic friend quipped when Goldman first went to Washington. "Nobody has had a better job since the N.A.A.C.P. sent a man to Mississippi...
...rate of 2,000 a week, and had to be carted into "readers' " offices in big wicker baskets. Most could be dismissed with a scan of the first few pages, but editors had to watch for glued and upside-down pages farther on -writers' tricks to detect unread pieces...
Nixon and Humphrey have both assigned volunteer experts to the thankless task of turning out thoughtful if largely unread position papers on all sorts of topics: black capitalism, the problems of aging, rural redevelopment. But most are aimed at small special-interest groups, and if the press reports them, such pronouncements usually wind up in puny paragraphs between the obituaries and the recipes. Above all, candidates give short shrift to many issues because the people themselves are uninterested. Talk about the gold outflow or trade protectionism makes audiences nod and yawn. It is a political axiom, and one of democracy...
...actions were not in the "national interest." The Justice Department, all too aware in 20th century terms of the legal trouble "delinquents" and their families could make, held that so clearly punitive a process seemed to be indefensible under the First Amendment. Hershey, however, is a 19th century man, unread in constitutional law but totally committed to what used to be called Americanism...
...only still in print, but can be purchased for under a dollar in any drugstore in the Square. They are hardly worth the trouble of stealing from Widener. Many of Widener's locked-up books stand on the open shelves of Lamont and even of Hilles--unmarked and often unread. Undergraduates seem much more interested in defacing Ec 1 textbooks. There is little voltage in an 1888 treatise on "Why Priests Should Wed" or a Russian medical text illustrated with curvaceous line graphs--both classifiedXR in Widener...