Word: committeee
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Only the Eisenhower Administration, it seems not too frivolous to assert, could ever have gathered together a group of extremely distinguished men and given them the name "The President's Committee on National Goals." And, perhaps, only this administration could have conceived and executed the entire project with an air...
The committee evidently surprised the New York Times with the vagueness and vacuity of its report. After all, the Times protested, a committee that will not publish what a large number of its members suggested--a recommendation that the Connally Amendment be repealed--is not likely to broadcast anything else...
The Times is easily astonished. It is difficult to guess what they expected beyond the easy, frothy flow of cliches that must always accompany such projects. If businessmen, professional men, and scholars do not have some well-defined purpose to fulfill (as do, say, the members of the American Assembly...
Results of the poll will be tabulated within the next several days, according to Michael M. Hornblow '62, vice-Chairman of the undergraduate committee.
Most of his listeners would agree that Snow made his point. I would question, though, his assumption that such secret politics are in any way bizarre or peculiar to our own age. It seemed to me that what he was describing--committee maneuvers, the politics of hierarchy, and "court politics...