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Whether the Volunteers' two-year period overseas can also be made more fruitful intellectually is an open question. I've already suggested that a number of Volunteers enter the Peace Corps because they want a moratorium from academic life, and perhaps also from introspection. Can one imagine for such people a dispersed university that would not seem too institionalized, too much a reminder of what has for the time being been left behind? It seems conceivable to me that one could find roving intellectual ambassadors and bring them into touch with Volunteers at different points in their trajectories. Some Peace...
Meanwhile, let's have a moratorium on all publicity about the actions and pronouncements of officials of the "NonStudents Violent Committee" and other racist demagogues and terrorists...
...George Do It. Aside from Nelson Rockefeller-whose father donated the land for the Jackson Lake resort and whose brother Laurance oversees its operation-the men who were discussed most were not even at the meeting. Nixon was vacationing back East -and observing his self-imposed moratorium on active campaigning. Reagan and Romney were in their respective capitals waging last-minute battles to push big new tax increases through recalcitrant legislatures...
...recommendations which the Board should make about the language requirement must be approved by the Faculty. The last time the Faculty considered altering the requirement, in 1960, the debate was long, diverse, and completely unproductive, so much so that Dean McGeorge Bundy declared an informal moratorium on discussion of the subject...
...away from his family 270 days out of the year. Pretty soon his wife remembers the American Airlines ad and says, They're looking for bright young men and you're a bright young man . . .' " To stop that drain, the Navy recently proposed a three-year moratorium on airline hiring of military pilots...