Word: operandi
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Dean Monro told the committee that "power at Harvard lies in a sensible idea, clearly expressed, with good manners." Aside from its own merits (which are many) this statement automatically defines the effective modus operandi for any legislative body, since the deans do have a good deal to say about how much power any undergraduate organization can have...
...Choice is valuable from this point of view. It evades with fair consistency the pitfalls of crisis-ridden thinking, the temptation to search for panaceas or slogans. It calls on intellectuals and policy-makers alike to gear their thinking to the least optimistic assumptions, and attempt the best modus operandi from there. It is for just this reason that some of the contradictions and evasions are so disturbing. Those passages which betray the same irrationality that pervades most American thinking about foreign policy in the nuclear age are likely to undermine the rest of the work...