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...only is there a feeling that blacks are powerless, but there is a general consensus among black administrators that tokenism exists at Harvard--a charge that received some substantiation from an examination of the directory of blacks at Harvard. It contains only 87 names. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences alone has 800 members...
...week that he would definitely run for election in his own right in 1976, had obviously decided that he had nothing to lose at home by traveling abroad. Only by acting as if he had a mandate from the voters could an unelected President hope to increase a national consensus for his foreign policy...
...Muller announced that South Africa-a charter member of the U.N. and one of the few African nations that pays its dues-will freeze its annual $1.1 million contribution to the U.N. budget. The possibility of withdrawing from the U.N. was being debated in Pretoria last week, but the consensus seemed to be that such a move would be self-defeating. As one Johannesburg newspaper put it, as long as South Africa's enemies can shout at it in the U.N., they are less likely to shoot...
...tear-tugging to read the poetry of the displaced Palestinian. Also very interesting was the consensus at Rabat that the Arabs are again one nation. Strange, is it not? The "Arab nation" has unity of religion, custom, language and heritage, with billions of excess dollars and millions of square miles of unused land, and the only place a Palestinian Arab can feel at home is in "the orange groves of Jaffa...
Sociology, according to the radicals now in it, is a department that has limited ties to corporations and the government, and this is partly a result of the discipline's lack of a large majority consensus among sociologists on what sociology is. Skocpol says, "If you go into opposition in economics, you are disputing a generally undisputed science. But in sociology, there is no absolutely dominant body of doctrine, like neo-classical economics." To be a Marxist sociologist, Skocpol and Taylor say, is to uphold one critical theory--even if it is the most critical theory--among many others...