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...Corporation's decision was unfortunate for other reasons. Pusey jeopardized the Press's reputation for discriminating, independent judgment when he permitted Harvard to be pressured by scientists whose disagreement with Watson was purely personal. He also confirmed the widely shared feeling that he is less interested in diversity of viewpoint than bland tranquility...
...troublesome oddity is that although all of this fine rowdyism is described from the viewpoint of the twelve-year-old Albert, a mist of ruefulness and loss drifts across the narrative. Even when Albert has blundered beyond the streets controlled by Catholic and Jewish slum-runners into a schoolyard held by Negroes and seems about to have his gizzard sliced, the tone is one of marveling reminiscence, not fright. Albert's perceptions are never solidly those of a twelve-year-old apprentice delinquent; often they are those of a 45-year-old writer. "Whistling, he bounced into Benny...
...change of position and that there would be none. "We've run out of moves," said one high official. "The San Antonio formula is it, as far as we are concerned." Whatever the real import of Hanoi's intensified diplomatic campaign, one side benefit from the Communist viewpoint is the increased pressure it puts on Washington. United Nations Secretary General U Thant chimed in once again and put responsibility for getting talks started on the U.S. The Soviet Union condemned Johnson's "unwillingness to negotiate," although elsewhere Soviet-American diplomacy-which may yet prove...
...longer term, the U.S. is leading a drive to create a new monetary system that will, in time, loosen the world's umbilical ties to gold. From the American viewpoint, the current system unfairly penalizes the U.S. because it has run up deficits doing things that benefit the world, such as spending for foreign aid and tourism, lending and investing in capital-short areas. Thus, any new system has to provide a liberal and flexible credit window for tiding over countries with justifiable deficits. Most important, the system has to be one that eases the world shortage of monetary...
...motivation" criterion might tend to favor students strongly opposed to the war, Inkeles acknowledged, but added "we hope for some diversity of viewpoint." A student "gets points not for his opinions, but for his skill as a social scientist," he added...