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WALTER GOODMAN
TEPPING into the limousine that anti-Stalinist left, the Congress for; `a"" "`' "'" UVA4Z "" '.-.'"?' "`'
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would carry him to Princeton, Cultural Freedom attracted such dis- and that Hook was prosfor
because Sidney because
of
ti his -Co reputation not More
where he was to join illusioned ex -Communists as Ignazio ent
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fourscore other scholars, journalists Silone, Arthur Koestler and Sidney unrega wit as
inevitably suggested
inevi
and men of public affairs in a dis- Hook. In an attempt to rally intellec- than one
sie
of the meeting
meeting
cession of "The United States: Its teals against Soviet ambitions in that -is: " the e real in T.A.C.F subject
Image the
Problems, Impact and Image in the Europe, the congress sponsored was:
World," a political scientist from magazines like Encounter, held semi 'absent from Princeton Uni-
abroad had a heavy sense that he was nars, and circulated petitions pro- Also
's agreeable Whig Hall,
being taken to a funeral. As the testing the repression of writers and veAls y
limousine embarked upon the New scholars under assorted dictatorships. ,which the day-long discussions took.
Jersey Turnpike, his gloomy musings After 20 years of such work, when place, were more leftish or "radical"
developed apace. The host of the its debt to the C.I.A. was exposed, or merely anti-American elements of
meeting at Princeton, after all, was some men who shared the values oi? America's intellectual spectrum. The
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while having known, sole Cuban to be invited replied tha
al Association for the congress
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V Cultural. Freedom (I. A. C. F.), '1'i nothing of the C.I.A. involvement, felt he be goddamned if he
himself with such an association.
offspring of the Congress for Cul- that there was something there worth idently sharing his sentiments to
ra. Freedom, done in a couple of saving, in the fashion of U. S. inlet I.vears ago by the revelation that it lectuals, John Kenneth Galbraith, th some degree were the Nixon and
was being supported by the Central late Robert Oppenheimer and others Brezhnev Administrations, neither of
Intelligence Agency. The visitor un- turned to the Ford Foundation, and which, though solicited, sent along
derstood, of course, that the cere- delegates. (Henry A. Kissinger, in-
were received cordially by its prest` before he was named T'resi-
monies at Princeton were designed dent, McGeorge Bundy. From Bundy-vited dential Assistant for National Security
not as rites for the departed rascal, Ford, the renovated International did drop by for dinner, and
but as an innocent heir's debut into - Association for Cultural Freedom Affairs,
resident gave his inadvertent imitation of
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- WALTER GOODMAN is a freelance -Shepherd Stone, who had been Peter Sellers doing Dr. Strang&love...-
omised that the doors of the
writer and the author of "The Commit- director of the Ford Foundation'sHe pr
tee," a history of the House Un-Ameri- International Affairs Program for'.. White House would -henceforward be
to tr. all his nld friends. . "Aha!"
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but, such perhaps is the influence and publishes 18 magazines, on the
of the New Jersey Turnpike, his, order of The China Quarterly, a must'',,(( The Americans who came to
thoughts kept turning more to decay for China-watchers, and Survey?/1'rinceton tended to be of the Ken-
e of nedy-McCarthy-Kennedy stripe--that
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Nothing that would happen in the Eastern Europe. such as Galbraith and Arthur
ensuing four days and nights,. early Mr. Stone, who has the look of
this month, worald do much to bright- a U. S. ambassador in an out-of-the- Schlesinger Jr. and Carl Kaysen, di-
en the visitor's outlook. He and many way country, is not unaware of the rector of Princeton s institute for
Advanced Study and an aide to
ization
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cloudtriat shadows
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. of his confreres would depart
~~ a Bundy during the days of Camelot.
ton shaken by the uncertainty they Since the beginning of 10967," he Bundy himself t days
make found among the. American liberals emphasizes arid- emphasizes again, ( served as co-chairman, along
there assembled, the .lack of direction ":the association has been totally Kaysen
with Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber,
in men to whom,democrats around the supported by the Ford Foundation. world had in ether ent years even a looked sari of for Not a penny has come from' any natty author of "The American
" Challenge."
Government source
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support, en
ouragem, As the French poet Pierre Em
leadership. It was readily understand- anuel would lament on the final
able--the Presidential campaign and m
s; HE nature of the Princeton semi-
000 and day, this meeting under the auspices
h to sap no
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on wer
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its culminat
, of Cultural Freedom
the richest spirit-but the weariness exhausted the I.A.C.F. treasury for was mainly a
that permeated the meeting was set 1968, was, defined as much by per- gathering of social scientists, and
off, in a peculiarly troubling way, sons missing as by those who ap- very weak on the arts. Of the two
by the presence of several men in peared. The conjecture over drinks prominent American writers Invited,
their 20's, a quarter-century below was that Melvin Lasky, co-editor of Saul Bellow did not show up, and
Lillian Hellman, though attending the
the average age of the company. If Encounter (now owned by a British.lneetings loyally, found lit ale to con-
they were at all representative of publisher), had not been invited be anal wise-
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the present college generation, then
the . bearers of the international
,:,-r r,nnns cnuld only conclude
a black' mhn before Aupprmvlbd FloRaleals%2iQ04i1Old3 s1C1 ?PfM-040*fA000]3(Ib9!5bt0a1 r4"'"''
evening and recalling that Charles Charles Hamilton, delivered a dis- mend. it, but he welcomed
"Bl k Power") Hamilton was sched-': ertation on black power that was , the idea in the thought that
s
( ac
uled to be a panelist the next day, clogged. with phrases like "a sorry it would in some way forward
she greeted him as Mr. Hamilton.' pass" and "approaching a cross- the goal of integration.
He turned out to be Harold ("The roads." Although he saw black power Cruse and Innis took the
Negro Intellectual") Cruse, who re- as an expression of middle-class criticisms calmly enough, but
sponded amiably that he had always yearnings, an attempt by black people the young whites were of-
To
their behalf
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imagined Lillian Hellman to be a to get a "share in the American pie,
Brown. who hastened up to
were rootea not in-" -.L- h,,,,1,- express his solidarity, it
.. HE gathering boasted stars from lcm, but a "group" problem, arising. express that white people had
several lands, but the show-stealers out of American ,racism. The apparent, no business trying to get'-
were a set of young men who had contradiction puzzled several of the ? definitions of black power. In
been invited as specimens of Amer- Europeans, and Cruse did little to America's schools these days,
ican studentdom. There was an off I- clear up matters for them. ("Thank he reported, conversation be-
cer of the National Student Associa- you, Mr. Hamilton," said Carl Kaysen gins with an acknowledgment
tion, a chap from The Harvard Crim-. when he was finished.) of white racism, then pro-
son, and a prominent worker in the Whereas Cruse described himself coeds, apparently via a kind
McCarthy campaign. All were self- as a ",cultural pluralist," the engaging of group therapy, to a doter-
possessed, articulate, spirited and Innis came on as an unabashed black urination of how whites must
individually likable; they wore their nationalist. He outlined his plan for change in order to accommo-
sideburns long, of course, but they a separate black state, made up of date themselves to black ?de-
had on neckties and coats and were communities here and there around sires-. Robert Powell, chairman
clearly a different cut of student the country "like islands immersed of the National Student Asso-
from the raggedy S.D.S: er who pa- '.in land." Something on the order of ciation, concurred in this. The
raded outside on the opening day , Indonesia, he proposed--a notion that root problem, he declared
of the conference with a sign propos- stupefied the Indonesians present. most emphatically, was while..
a white problem, and
racism
,
ing that a rude act be performed Examples of the economic and politi- whether one liked it or not,
on "RACISM, IMPERIALISM, GENO cal progress made by Negroes in: a cooperative society was no'
CIDE, CORPORATION CAPITALISM, recent years did not impress Innisloner possible. Powell an-
POLICY PLANNERS, ETC." (At the nor did suggestions that the country, g
nounced, in.a pleasant North
suggestion of a college official, the, faced other problems in addition to. Carolina delivery, that he was
verb was crossed out and replaced' race. "We recognize only two main:
" he de- angry at the response to the
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which must have
by "DOWN WITH,
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black and , f black, speakers and he ex-
stared--that is
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or
had a bad effect on morale,picket did not return after the first white and he called on his pressed his appreciation to
people to follow the example Roy Innis for. even sitting
day.) of the Jews in the land of the , through the discussion; in the
The young guests evidenced Pharaohs, who also sought circles where he travels, black
a set of attitudes toward this nation liberation from a foreign op- students no longer attend'.
meetings where they may en-
and iks problems that has become
p
ressor.a bane of American liberalism. The.
l manner counter disagreement.
lib
era
that
meeting had scarcely gotten under In These lively contributions
way before Sam Brown, a ' 25-year- which tickled Sam Brown, the
audience proceeded to scruti- were applauded, prompting
old veteran of the McCarthy effort, one middle-aged delegate from
made it clear what he .thought of nine these statements . and
liberals. The gathering, he told the pressed the speakers for fur- abroad to remark: "Tomorrow'
ther elucidation, which was one of the kids will got up.
Asked and tell us we're a bunch of;
ates who responded with avun-
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,. cular smiles, was a stereotype of by a German professor what ' damn fools, and we will all'
everything he had ever believed precisely he meant by labeling !. clap and Arthur Schlesinger.
the breed-"Oh, we'll listen America a "new colonial pow- will explain that, whereas the
about
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we'll go out and do something about to be in that role." With the ly sound, still it does have,
it. Brown, who will be teaching at exception of John B. Oakes, progressive potentialities."
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editor of The New York Times E
the Kennedy Institute at Harvard for
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the coming year, considers himself editorial page, who called f HE early interjections by
l nk between the more radical stu= black power "racism under an- the youth contingent, bold of
"Some of the kids mistrust me 17e the Innis project as "impracti- 'were characteristic of their,
cause I attend an affair like this. cal," "unrealistic," "immoral" ' participation in the seminar.
But I don't consider liberals a mono- and "self-indulgent," the crib- Understandable though it was
lithic bloc, and I share some liberal . cisms were gentle, considering that the students should not
values. Like free speech." He wished the quality and substance of have been eager to take on
Tom Hayden had been invited. the presentations. Several of in substantive debate men.
The first encounter (it did not the delegates wondered who had 'distinguished them-
confron- whether Innis was not just : -elves -in the study of Amer-
f
a
ttain the status o
quite aputting on Whitey, but nobody ,? lean society and international
'tat between students and elders said so in 'public. Arthur relations, their preference for
came on opening day, in the form
of a reaction to the reactions evoked ' Schlesinger agreed that Innis 's theatrical display had deeper
roots than mere prudence. It
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the liberal affliction of dis- ' American called Peretz a
cussing and analyzing and "fake radical," and Europeans
interminably weighing alter- old enough to remember some
natives, they showed disdain, Socialist battles were even
or at best condescension. They harder on him in their private
complained repeatedly of a conversations. After he sug-
lackrof passion at Princeton gested that the unfortunate
-not enough people there in tastes generally exhibited by
fatigues and berets, observed. the common folk were in-
Brown-and when they rose duced by commercial pres-,
it was Iess to advance the' sures, a Parisian muttered,
course of argument, than to "That man does not ride the
exhibit themselves to the dis- subways."
passionate 'middle-aged as Like his younger friends,
` avatars of righteous indigna- - Peretz's strong suit was the
0
tion. They were constantly' large gesture, and he found
bearing witness. an opportunity to do his thing
The seminar's leading ex- at dinner one evening after a
ponent of this political form talk by Eugen Loebl, .former
was Martin Peretz, an assist- director of the Czechoslovak
ant professor of sociology at State Bank, who fled his coun-
Harvard, who helped to stage try during last summer's So-
the unforgettable New Politics., Viet occupation. A defendant
meeting in Chicago in 1967. in the occupation.
trials of. 19,19,
Stocky, full-bearded and -look-. Loebl spent 11 years in prison,
ing a decade older than his and the presence of the small,
29 years, Peretz is an elder benign-looking old man who.
statesman of the New Left; still considered himself a good
he saw himself at Princeton Communist and strained in
as a gadfly who -had been "in- his talk to search out some
vited to misbehave." Although congruence between his ter-
he huddled with the students rible experience and the ideol-
between sessions and took ogy that sustained him was
care to identify with them in; most moving. Even the two
his remarks, he did not share. 0
men from Tass said they were
their view that black men.
must be above criticism, and. moved:
he took Cruse to task for Earlier in ' the day, Loebl
neglecting the class issue in had been the cause of a flurry
his talk on black power. The between Servan-Schreiber and
"class issue" was to Peretz . Andreas Papandreou, when'
all that white racism was to the Frenchman asked the
the students; his formal con- Czech whether, as a Commu-
tribution to the seminar, deliv- nist, he would now prefer to
ered in shirtsleeves and open live in the United States or
collar, was a paper on cor. the U.S.S.R. Unaware that
porate power in America, Loebl had agreed beforehand
which brought yawns of nos- to the putting of the question
talgia in all parts of the room' (he has chosen the United
-"He's the New Left, you, States), the testy Papandreou
say?" protested that it was inap-
h
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"Who owns America?" propriate. Now, at dinner, t
asked Peretz, and replied that incident was repeated in a
mer
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rich people do. As a help in different form when a British , from the vrinna Amn?rirnnc
torian Vann Woodward placed ," : ~ ~ 1,;
him hnclc in the nineteen- and the mild Loebl showed no : lost everything, and they take: ' yi""t ,.1
.of 1948, whereas Yale his- sons who still valued the f,;
names of n-. and Masa k sudden, bitter intensity. .,,we r'
y
Peretz was fighting the battle not devoid of interest to per-
broke out a French Jew with ? K. .
tics i...... Dominican Repub- blunt of manner, reminded patiently pointed out that ror n the
Loebl that he had been an ' democratically inclined per.
t
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on
lie he drew attent
, era[ State Department policy accomplice in the destruction" sons of a certain age through
out the world, the United
d of democracy in his country
ho are connecte
. makers w with sugair interests. in 1948 and asked: "What! States will always be remem- I
>?
The French sociologist went wrong?" ? .'" The question, bered as a savior in the worst
Michel Grazier suggested that though gracelessly posed, was of times. "They have no idea
what our
outh was like " s>
thirties. to Lolumwi vi-vu"
sity sociologist Daniel Bell, ing 1948, at least in theoreti- It was the presence of the -~
whom he opposed in a sort-of cal terms. young that prompted several .~esarV ir1. I`issii t er
debate, Peretz was like a vir- Nevertheless, up rose Mar- of the visitors to make an-
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;,gin shouting to the world his tin Peretz aflash with color- ot
enduring credit
they seem to
in their countries tine material `
,
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discovery of si iG ~ 'f 13 ? lygr {$8~,1 ,1 }Q i~ 01O(ii~ lien into the belief that
Hof the profit mo in clanne is outrage hat the; Americans are able simulta- ,all International difficulties.
neously. to enjoy and despise; are susceptible to-marches and
. - f Ynmairt e?T7iniv~ .n..snnP:..e.n - ' l' HtI A"S.
M.P., a citizen of a nation. Others remarked that they
which bore a share of respon- found far less conformity and
sibility for the plight of Biafra, , far more dissent here than in
or any American, burdened their own lands. "If we 'didn't.
with Vietnam and McCarthy- know the rest of the world,"
isin, would dare to pose such observed the old Communist
a question. It yids a high Loeb] after listening to a spate
point of Peretz's series of . of criticism, "we might cones exhibitions at Princeton 'and elude that this is the Wprst
did nothing to improve his country in the worid. ",;
standing among those for ,. v7i-j
the events of 1948 still
held political meaning. HE disagreements -that'-
By calling up that unhappy developed at the meeting- '
year, this incident reminded between the French, like Ser
some at Princeton of the' van-Schreiber, who are press-
original impetus for the for- ing for the "smallest possible_
mation of the Congress for presence" of America on the
Cultural Freedom. They re- Continent,. and the Germans,
called that "progressives" of who are not elated at the
the time worked up ""explana-; prospect of losing their mill-
tions" for the Soviet takeover tary shield, did not stir the
and then for the Slanslcy students; nor did the ex-
trials, and charged anti-Com- Pressed fears of Asian dele-
munist protesters on the left! gates of what a hasty Amer
with the dreadful sin of red- ican departure might mean
baiting. Much as Peretz now: in their part of the world.
throw up Biafra to the blunt As one participant noted, half
M.P., so The Nation then, out the room seemed exasperated
of quite different impulses, by America and the other
took the Czechoslovak putsch half was clinging to her.
as an occasion to remind its Conflicting national inter-
readers that England had a ests, the imponderables of
shameful history in India. If, security in threatened areas,
a few old~tiiners mused, the the complex interrelationships
young guests at Princeton had of allies and of enemies-
had some feeling for 1948, these'matters left the students
they might have been more cold. Having marched against
tolerant of the liberals of 1968. the war in Vietnam with re- -.-
The young men's apparent
obliviousness of much of con
1 1,T,7,
temporary history, except in'
caters to their predispositions,
caused a number of visitors
to Princeton to shake their
heads and remind themselves
that this country had faced
exceedingly difficult problems
before and managed remark-
ably well. The foreigners,
taken aback by the rote anti-
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slogans. They showed them- Now. Bell is not a plan to r , 4
selves tempted by the old tear a passion to tatters. );le w; HE most direct clash of
conceit that they do indeed is businesslike; he talks very i the generations was occa-
'live in the worst of countries fast and very much to the sioned by the appearance at
and point; he seems always on ',,a dinner meeting of George
the worst of times
i
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n
that salvation resides exclu- the verge of dashing off to F. Xennan. Gray suit, silk tie,
the unsullied young: catch a plane. Though it was elegant gold chain across his
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not in their knowledge or in Peretz who consciously took vest, dignified bearing-Ken-? :.10112 all the quantity of in-
their reason, but in their pas- on the role of generational nan personified a life style telligence that had been oath-
,sion and courage and readi- spokesman. it was Bell who for which the young could ered together, no one left
ness to put themselves on the seemed tuned in to the swict-: muster little sympathy or un- Princeton much impressed
ling.. est currents of the society.. derstanding. He reciprocated with the intellectual level of
Their reiterated suspicion of For his pains, he was charged ? completely. Kennan had the ' the meeting ("I could have
reason when it is not adorned by the earnest man from The: audience's high personal re-, shome and read a mag.
with emotion's trappings came Harvard Crimson with scant-,gird . an Australian saw in ! stayed tyye azinc," said a European on
out most clearly in their reac- ind the "human dimension. non great moral passion"-the third day), and for the
lion to Daniel Bell. Bell has Bell's no-nonsense delivery, but few at Princeton were, young it - can only have con-
years become identified in recent as much as his content, in- willing to accompany him young their conviction on-
years with the theme that vites this kind of reaction, into his pessimistic depths, or- frmeds eiif oat altoathat
solutions to tile world's prob- and his cool faith in technol- to accept his, bleak view of i
; mkru t g'
gems lie "beyond ideology," ogy affronts the ~~cherished the college generation. Look lb p , as Sam Brown
New Left tenet of ? participa- ing out upon an America' 'w'ould have it-is not now in
.
and are to be found instead flush circumstances.
in an advanced type of social lion. ' which he could barely recog-, A symptom of is malaise,
engineering suitable to a ? A number of Europeans, nine, he saw the young as achingly visible at Princeton,
technetronic age. (Techne- holding a good old humanis-. ignorant, arrogant and "flours-, is that it has lost, at least for
l .tropic: a neologism, coined by tic position, and uneasy about dering around in drugs, por-, a.-time, the allegiance of many
Columbia's LUignicw Brzezin- the possibility of manipula- nography and political hys- bright, decent young people
ski, that attempts to suggest, lion by technocrats, joined ter ia." Pcretz rebutted by g;iv- like Sam Brown-who proper-
a union of "'technology" and the students' front againstling credit to the students for, ly called Galbraith to order
"electronics,' and one wwhich Bell's ostensible indifferenceldaricr to go South in the fhis comfortable expression
few participants at Princeton ' to the priorities of flesh and ?
cause of civil rights and for for o "faith" that our problems
were able to pronounce at blood. "Who will be happy in
;
awakening the nation to Viet- would somehow or other be
first go.) According to Bell, your society?" asked Jan ram, and concluded there-'solved. What theyoun; Amer-
o
ment, which has made the 'problems, even though he wished to say y
university a "super -heated gave an appreciative nod to ically. When Kennan and oth-ed the young still, after all,
cockpit" and he focused on the "human values" sought 'ers predicted that continuing. had meaning for men who had
newly developing conflicts un-, by the students. student demonstrations would, come together as conscious,
licnirit d. bearers of the
f
stressed the ever-growing un- terra for oregn ai m because he had a very limited thin,. The faltering effort at
portance of theoretical knowl- moral" and called for the r
edge for industry and govern- 'tionalization of international -number of things to say and rational discussion that alter-.
? them emp'hat- -el aroused and exasperat-
villainy-and complicate . the warm to Brzezinski, who pro- agog p
s black power
power picture in America. He nounced the ideological cri- because he is either callow or so muscular as
? d "? naturally a -demagogue, but or student power, but some-
e
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t
of yesterday - a crac at to tae ew interjection tended to nave group of intellectuals flailing
Peretz's exposure of corporate liar reasons, they could not callow demagogic quality, not
rd for ur ose" Nothing'
get away fro'ni the scmplisrns have become meat anu r.nc ram and police brutality; hrs
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plained that l was trying to frontations of the sort that nan with evocations of Viet satisfactory affair, the guests
could discern something more
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roached Ken-i t-?ation:Yet even at this un
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we now live in a "communal Itott, the celebrated Polish from that "cool reasonable- scans could see at this sem-
society," where an impact on Shakespeare scholar who now ' Hess is, at a minimum, not inar and middle - aged for-
any one place has an effect teaches at Yale. For an hour, preferable to a political hys eigners saw it, too-was a
on every other place. We have the old liberals and young' teria." (To a British editor, it disposition among liberals to
achieved notable progress- militants made common cause seemed that both the "con-congratulate themselves upon'
millions of people, black and against t;ae notion (a carica- 'servative liberal" Kennan and; the past and to look forward,
white, moving up out of pov- tore of Bell's position) that .the "conservative radical" ;, rather distantly, to the fu-
erty and reaching out for human beings should have Peretz were rushing into illib-; ture.
more political power-and their needs and their soli- .eralities -"Because we fear As for the present, today,,
what we need now, in Bell's tions worked out for them by ',Big Brother tomorrow, let's they seemed at loose ends.
view, is ?a "codification of tile- some machine or other in the 'have him right now.") It was with almost a, sense
oretidal' knowledge" Ito meet control of soulless experts. ' Now -there was passion on of relief that, over cocktails
problems that have in fact j The American activists may ',both sides-- glowing steadily, at the Princeton Inn, the-, created largely by past h
nnon flari.-g from : e Americans offered mocking
ve found Bell unsatis- ., ? K
recagn-zea 1n Cne iwarx1s, As Anmuny Higley, uiuwDc ,an, r...Wr
doctrines he himself once British editor of Interplay ? the right ("George Wallace is liberal tradition-,.-Weril listen
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shared -between scientists magazine, observed, t
and the military, between Left's efforts seem mainly di- men into the arena than and then we'll ;o out and do
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various educational elites and rooted at annoying society, ? Tom Hayden, warned
could
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the masses; between techno- rot governing it, and the tech- inger), the st
crats and bureaucrats. Where- nical approaches to problem- recognize that it was not only
as yesterday's conflicts in- solving, elaborated by Bell and the threat of repression 'that
volved opposing economic Brzezinski would doubtless troubled the alder men but
forces, tomorrow's he rro~m or the thin , gyro : repressed.
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to these values today, as Ken-
nan pictured it, comes not
from autocratic administra-
tions or from fascist cops, but
from the student mob.
ous technological dlites and not much satisfaction in yell= tic,pants at 1 rinceton were
would be on the order of: ing; obscenities at a computer. committedetto the va~l es o
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to is ..
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son and I onneay Adnii. i err.-1'o! the Nixon ' F~clmi.r,ist a. .
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professor only,'o said ~i C Pt a cs wait ')CT'ijca1 tyi arch
President Shep;.r d Stn+,. ?< s.,_
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seminar, eC'~
varci Prof. Henry Iiissi which had no co:ln
rcer iS 1;1Oii either with .~~;izieetCtn.
bound to give the gai.hering a ? University or the Insucute 10
definite political #lavo.. ,,,-._-. - ,. .
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Democrats. ov t,n:1, , ..__ ..... ,
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will hold
out that, besides Kissinger, M-n-T :. ,.
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d
rriar4 that polite atterltio r ;? according to ? Store.
X-e>.ertheless, intellectuals
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if
the still-unformed- Nixon Soviet observers invited hill
1~clrriiz.i tration was pay1119l tt>
.i,aclr. ! memca and Australia
dcrwaY, umany of file parLicl- -:11 ...___. .
mer vi11te Mouse aide to Pres. 10.,1 . rurope including
ident Kennedy. Same from ? the Communist
t1CatE Ci Colrtmnist.
1' oundat` and _ --Arthur
?on , and Scnleb'inger Jr., a'iotI er fox-F.111 ri+CitiOn, LtelIiect aIS '
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:ner? special assistant for no- 1.r, les. ibicC. 117aunas
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Closcd Sessions
Also, George hrilna.n, foes'''.
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Mo,scow; ,
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mom u.s. Ambassador to India
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