THE LIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT FACESTHE BLACKS THE YOUNG THE NEW LEFT

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: December 9, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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TEPPING into the limousine that
would carry him to Princeton,
N. J., where he lvas to join
fourscore other scholars, journalists
Fathered in the early.. years of
Cultural Freedom attracted such dis-' and that Sidney I?look was not pres.
illusiorted ex-Communists as Ignazio eat because of his reputation for
cussion of "The United States: Its tuals against Soviet*- ambitions ;n that the real subject of the meeti
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Problems, Impact and Image in the Europe, the congress sponsored was: "The LA.C.F.--Its Image in the
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testing the repression of writers and varsity's agreeable Wlr;g Hall, in +n...r~!
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meeting at Princeton, after all, was some men.who shared the values oi.America's intellectual spectrum. The
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not as rites for the departed rascal, .Ford, the renovated International dential Assistant for National Security
but as an innocent heir's debut into , Association for Cultural Freedom Affairs, did drop by for dinner, and
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WALTER GOODMAN is a freelance -Shepherd Stone, who had been Peter Sellers doing Dr. Strangelove,.; ~ ',"
writer and the author of "The Commit
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tee," a history of the House Un-Amen. International Affairs Program for, White House would henceforward be
can Aetiviliec Committee, . more . ithan a decade. The I A C v ' open to all his old friends- "Aha!"
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.-ow has affiliates in 10 countries ;clortled a European journalist. "He's
but,, such perhaps is the influence
Of the New Jersey Turnpike hisand publishes 18 magazines, on the, bribing them with jobs.")
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Nothing that would happen in the Eastern Europe. is, the famous liberal Establishment''
.ensuing four days and nights, early Mr. Stone, who has the look of.--such as Galbraith and Arthur
this month would do much to bright- _ .-
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way country, is not unaware of the rector or rrince,on's institute for,;'
of his confreres would depart Prince- cloud that shadows his organization. Advanced study and an aide to
ton shaken by the uncertainty they "Since the beginning of 1967," Ire Bundy during the days of Camelot.
found among the American liberals emphasizes arid' emphasizes again,,( undy himself couldn't make it.)
t III men to whom democrats arouna the supported by the Ford Foundation., with Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber,
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other years looked for Not a penny has come from, any natty author of 'qlhe American'
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the richest spirit-but the weariness exhausted th
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a
,,. that permeated the meeting was set 1968, was-defined as much by tir- gathering of social scientists, and
off, in a peculiarly troubling way, sons missin
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their 20's, a quarter-century below was that Melvin Lasky, co-editor of Saul Bellow did not show up, and
the"average ageltofrthe~company. If Encounter (now owned by a BritishiLilli?an Hellman, though attending the
the politically
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., t,,a.et;,e tjG11 dIlUJ1, l.nurl ;crack or innocoixt-.error. Upon seeing
the ? bearers of the international
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