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...Levine said that the split developed because of the large size of the Biology Department and the wide spectrum of academic opinions it represents. It had become difficult to reach a consensus within the department on undergraduate teaching, research, and Faculty appointments, Levine said...
...policy since the 1890's. "Open-door expansion" was its unifying theme. Far from claiming direct links between U.S. economic interests and political policy as Harry Magdoff has recently done in The Age of Imperialism, Williams focused on the ideology of intellectual, political, and business leaders. By 1898, a consensus view had emerged, to the effect "that the system of entrepreneurial capitalism could function successfully only if the marketplace constantly expanded." This conviction necessarily caused military and diplomatic involvements in defense of our overseas interests, although, as Gar Alperovitz has said, the ideological and economic threads have become too tangled...
...Contours, Williams pushed the origins of the imperial ideology back into the earliest days of the Republic. In The Roots of the Modern American Empire, he broadens this insight and creates a new "consensus" view of American social and economic history. As he told an audience at Harvard last year, he has found that American farmers first fully enunciated the rationale of marketplace expansion as a necessary condition for democracy and prosperity. The agrarians, between 1860 and 1893, coherently argued that such expansion "extended the freedom of all men." Their conception was adopted by industrialists in the crisis...
...number of issues-Viet Nam, poverty, racism-where pain is appropriate. When the cant is dropped, moreover, The New Left Reader provides brilliant and striking perceptions. In The May Day Manifesto, a trio of British New Leftists write against empire, the cold war and the concept of consensus with wit, clarity and a cutting edge that once would have deserved to be called Tory. Frantz Fanon is ingeniously convincing on the subtle significance of the Algerian woman's veil, first in the tyranny, finally in the overthrow of French colonial control. In an interview, Black Panther Leader Huey Newton...
...science; they were also proved wrong. Few prophets today see either triumph or tragedy. Whether the ministry survives will ultimately depend on what mankind decides a minister is?or should be. Though clergymen, theologians and social scientists offer widely different interpretations of some aspects of the future church, the consensus for the foreseeable future seems to be that old and new will exist side by side. Some of their specific predictions...