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Anderson can be expected to push the Navy viewpoint vigorously on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He once said: "I would rather be a captain in naval aviation than a lieutenant general in the Air Force." But Anderson is no obstructionist. Says he: "It would be unhealthy if everybody agreed on everything, and when there are differences on important issues the highest civilian authorities should make the decisions...
...separate ethnic cultural identity. While he prizes the U.S. melting pot, he dreads the homogenized young American to whom a wake is about as dated as a brogue. And so he tries to capture not only the wakes but the tangy, smoky drift of Irish talk, the parochial Irish viewpoint that every historical event can be reduced to some Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and the fanciful delight in "Characters"-little Philsy Kerrigan, who once saved up a trunkful of doughnuts; Danny McGhee, who always slept in a maple tree; the midget policeman who caught the dwarf bandit...
...Ursula Niebuhr, wife of Reinhold Niebuhr, will join the Institute staff as a Research Fellow. She plans to study some traditional respects of religion from the viewpoint of ego psychology...
...Away Absolutes. In general, Kennan is brilliant in his criticism of the unconditional surrender viewpoint, the belief in summit conferences, and similar fetishes of U.S. policy. He is considerably less convincing in his case for the relatively "moderate" Russian line, and there seems to be a distinct danger that belief in such moderation could become the kind of inflexible tenet that Kennan himself considers so dangerous. The sum of his advice to the U.S. is to keep talking to the Russians while watching and waiting -but he never suggests what to watch and to wait for. He merely pleads over...
Commissioner McMurrin is a strong proponent of local school control, "but certain judgments must be made from the viewpoint of national perspective." Last week he promised to raise academic standards by calling not only on professional educators but also on the country's best brains-including that most caustic critic of U.S. schools, Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Said dispassionate Philosopher McMurrin: "I think Admiral Rickover's impact on American education has been essentially good. His demand for greater rigor and the pursuit of excellence has had an excellent effect...