Word: academia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School's Graduate Program contains "too much academia"; there are reading lists with "over 200 individual items, from magazine articles to books of more than a thousand pages"; "it's just more college...
...point Four, the letter asks an absurdly rhetorical question which, as far as I can see, has nothing whatever to do with any point made in the article. The "too much academia" and "just more college" complaints were voiced to me by students at the Wilson School, and were so attributed. As for the mention of one long reading list, I cannot see how this could be interpreted as an argument on my part for anything...
...Institute clearly made a massive mistake in inviting top-level officials who could not feel free to speak frankly. It fell victim to the malady that it is -- or should be -- trying to cure. The gap between academia and government is not simply a problem of professors not appreciating the limitations of realpolitik; it is in part the widespread feeling among students that the government, led by Johnson and preoccupied with Vietnam, cannot be trusted to act wisely or honestly. The C.I.A.'s overactivity here and abroad, and the Administration's double-talk on international crises from the Dominican Republic...
...result, he contends, has been a marked lack of communication between the scholars and officials. Although the Kennedy Institute will not completely make up for Harvard's misplacement (or Washington's), it will be a great deal better than nothing and should foster closer ties between the Government and academia...
Another, perhaps more numerous, group of Woodrow Wilson School malcontents complains of too much academia. For example, Public Affairs 546--"Studies in American Foreign Policy"--offers a reading list that includes over 200 individual items, from magazine articles to books of more than a thousand pages. True, some of the items on this gargantuan list are only recommended, but P.A. 546 is just one of four courses you might take in a single term...