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...deteriorated further when he went to India the following year and "experienced increasing difficulty in relating these theories to the problems of Indian society. Indian students viewed these theories as not even remotely connected to reality." Though disenchanted with his former beliefs, he was waiting for some alternative to present itself--an attitude he now explains as an excuse for his own unwillingness to make the leap to radicalism...
...believe that he had been a "closet Marxist" at the time he was a candidate for tenure. Malcolm Gillis, professor of Economics, attributes this charge to the fact that Marglin was making radical statements during the late '60s, "a time of academic acrimony." Marglin today acknowledges that if his present radicalism had then been evident in his work, the University would have probably refused to grant him tenure. Still he denies being a "closet anything. I believed in the separation of my work from my politics then. I don't anymore," he says. Having tenure however, made it easier...
...book, which took the authors two years to research and write, was drawn largely from interviews of people on the court's sidelines, including some 170 present and former clerks, the bright young law school graduates who serve as the Justices' aides. Little, apparently, came from the several Justices with whom Woodward and Armstrong talked. Even so, the critics note, the narrative is stippled with much detail about the Justices' inner motives and feelings: Potter Stewart's stomach is said to "knot" before a meeting with President Nixon; William Brennan "felt betrayed" at one point; Burger...
...part of the American way of life. If the President fails, the consequences would be serious, both politically and economically. Says former Carter Economic Adviser Nordhaus: "If this keeps up, we're going to be living in a world of 10% or 11% inflation indefinitely." In fact, if present trends continue, inflation at those levels could look like the good old days...
Totman believes that the two theories need not lead to exclusive approaches. He recognizes that much of modern medicine ignores the patient and concentrates instead on symptoms or systems. "The present-day practitioner," he writes, "functions more like a pill-dispenser, and the surgeon more like a maintenance mechanic." At the same time, though, Totman warns that an overly spiritual approach can ignore the microbes in favor of the mind...