Word: academia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given the complexity of his career, one wonders why Worthy never entered the political arena. He says he would have to deeply analyze himself for a complete answer, but he says that he never wanted to be overwhelmed by a particular political movement. Instead, journalism and academia became his conduits for change. With the publication of The Rape Of Our Neighborhoods, perhaps America will start responding to Worthy's prose. If they do they might discover the truth in the words of Kenneth B. Clark: "The Bill Worthys of our society provide the moral fuel necessary to prevent the flickering...
...wooded hill separates the northernmost reach of the College's campus--Currier House--from Cambridge's Fresh Pond neighborhood. On that hill, at the fringe of both academia and the real world, sits the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, housing over 300 astrophysicists--the largest group in the country...
...past and have no relationship to the rest of the world, and that the Black experience can be evaluated primarily in terms of its cultural contributions. Surely, the direction the department has taken pays tribute to the very political outlook which guided Harvard and the other bastions of American academia to provide academic support for racial oppression. The administration's unceasing battle with the radical and Pan-Africanist faculty of the department has subsided, and it has gained valuable ground. Indeed, the administration is now able to determine policy through a set of "advisors" whom Southern admits help her design...
With such a simple solution possibly in the works for such an enormous health problem, it's small wonder that academia, private industry, and the public-minded all have a finger...
Harvard professors also serve the government without forsaking academia for Washington, as consultants and through various research contracts. At Harvard this has resulted in the invention of napalm in Mallinckrodt laboratory and the origination of the electronic battlefield by Professors Kaysen and Kistiakowsky. Many students are familiar with this sort of involvement of natural scientists in war research, but fewer realize that the same kind of complicity exists in the social sciences. An outstanding example of the latter is Samuel P. Huntington, who justified the practice of "forced-draft urbanization" in Vietnam. In the July 1968 issue of Foreign Affairs...