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...upshot of these criticisms, with the exception of Lipset's, is that the Institute may foster an uncritical approach to policy-oriented research--and that through its Honorary Associates program it will encourage "political and ceremonial events...
...upshot of these criticisms, with the exception of Lipset's, is that the Institute may foster an uncritical approach to policy-oriented research -- and that through its Honorray Associates program, it will encourage "political and ceremonial events" instead of genuine educational debate. The Institute has yet to define its goals and remains in the sacred veil of "experimentation," but the critics are anxious and feel that it must justify itself in academic terms before it receives the blessing of the community.SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET Professor of Government...
...fair. The reader, like the characters, should be in stitches as the jolly Gallic authors follow the criminal careers of the separate members of the subdivided victim, grafted as they are onto blameless citizens. As for the anomalous occurrences in the bedroom, no mind need boggle. The upshot of this gruesome farce is that the head of the condemned criminal contrives to commit several posthumous murders...
Plans to Convert. The upshot of all the continuing modifications is a big jump in costs. According to the Pentagon, overall F-111 development costs have already increased from $571 million to $1.5 billion. Instead of the $2,900,000 that each plane was supposed to cost when the contract was awarded, the price tag is now expected to be $5,000,000 for every F-111A, $8,000,000 for every F-111B. But the Defense Department continues to insist that the F-111 is a cost-cutting undertaking, partly because the Pentagon plans to convert it into...
...hearing on his appeal, Clara hurried back to Paris where she got a petition from impressionable intellectuals urging the French colonial government to spare him. The signatures included André Gide, François Mauriac, André Maurois, Louis Aragon, André Breton and old Anatole France. The upshot was a reduction of Malraux's sentence to one year, which colonial authorities quietly did not bother to enforce...