A Nervous View of Ronald Reagan

There’s “A Relaxing View of Ronald Reagan” (NR, November 28, 1967), and there are the sundry bellybutton views which the Relaxing Viewer commenced by canvassing, and there’s my own, the Nervous View, to which I feel entitled by domicile in the governor’s zamindary: much as elk are entitled to a nervous view when the conservationist unfolds his ecological charts. Lest suspicion fasten on my membership in a sub-group (the academic) which is demonstrably hypersensitive, I hasten to record agreement with two pertinent Relaxing premises: 1) that Ronald Reagan did not “fire Clark Kerr”; 2) that the state’s commitment to support of higher education entails some proportioning of the state’s total resources.

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There’s “A Relaxing View of Ronald Reagan” (NR, November 28, 1967), and there are the sundry bellybutton views which the Relaxing Viewer commenced by canvassing, and there’s my own, the Nervous View, to which I feel entitled by domicile in the governor’s zamindary: much as elk are entitled to a nervous view when the conservationist unfolds his ecological charts. Lest suspicion fasten on my membership in a sub-group (the academic) which is demonstrably hypersensitive, I hasten to record agreement with two pertinent Relaxing premises: 1) that Ronald Reagan did not “fire Clark Kerr”; 2) that the state’s commitment to support of higher education entails some proportioning of the state’s total resources.

Teaching v. Research