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Lyndon Johnson's Great Society legislation was a financial windfall for the school. Its budget soared from $2 million in 1960 to an $8.2 million peak in 1968, 57 per cent of which was supplied by the government. Men like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nathan Glazer, Christopher Jencks, and David Cohen rode in on the harvest...
Wolfe bolsters his argument with a little historical run-through, drawing some interesting parallels to 19th century society. He even cites social thinkers- Vernon L. Parrington, Wolfe identifies as "the literary historian," while managing to cite the triad of Seymour Martin Lipset, Nathan Glazer, and Kenneth Keniston in one of the sentences that follows- but more in the way of demonstrating his own brand of Academic Chic. (Wolfe took a doctorate in American Studies from Yale, and, like many a modern-day journalist, still yearns to justify his existence to the boys in the ivory tower he left behind...
...Haven last spring, Yale students held a pretrial sympathy strike for Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby G. Scale, who is charged with murder. Last week only 60 people showed up for the trial. Some former protest targets now draw cheers instead of boos. When Harvard University President Nathan Pusey addressed Harvard freshmen in September, for example, he got a standing ovation...
...years ago we were in grade school. But even without us, there was a Harvard. Nathan Pusey was already here, and Mac Bundy was still here, and the Loeb was here-though just opening-and even Lamont was here, as you will see below...
...average earnings of skilled workers have increased only 41%, compared with 64% for blacks as a group and 61% for executives. "The blue collar worker has seen the smart guy and the poor guy get theirs and has been wondering what was happening to him," says Economist Robert Nathan. "Now he is beginning to catch on." He has learned that those who push and speak up get attention and results...