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In my estimation, we definitely do ; and the sad part of it is that we had one, which was rounding into excellent shape, and we let it disintegrate and die.
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In my estimation, we definitely do ; and the sad part of it is that we had one, which was rounding into excellent shape, and we let it disintegrate and die.
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In my estimation, we definitely do ; and the sad part of it is that we had one, which was rounding into excellent shape, and we let it disintegrate and die.
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In my estimation, we definitely do ; and the sad part of it is that we had one, which was rounding into excellent shape, and we let it disintegrate and die.
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In my estimation, we definitely do ; and the sad part of it is that we had one, which was rounding into excellent shape, and we let it disintegrate and die.
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In my estimation, we definitely do ; and the sad part of it is that we had one, which was rounding into excellent shape, and we let it disintegrate and die.
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During the war, we set up schools for the teaching of psychological warfare, which included the teaching of propaganda, both black and white and the various shades of gray in between.
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During the war, we set up schools for the teaching of psychological warfare, which included the teaching of propaganda, both black and white and the various shades of gray in between.
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We had a couple of schools in this country, the principal one being on the Marshall Field estate out in Lloyd 's Neck.
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We had a couple of schools in this country, the principal one being on the Marshall Field estate out in Lloyd 's Neck.
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There were also a couple in Canada, and several in England.
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The English schools preceded ours, and by the time we got into it they had learned a lot about the techniques of propaganda and its teaching.
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The English schools preceded ours, and by the time we got into it they had learned a lot about the techniques of propaganda and its teaching.
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The English schools preceded ours, and by the time we got into it they had learned a lot about the techniques of propaganda and its teaching.
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Four of us here in the United States attended, first as students, then as instructors, almost every one of these schools, in England, Canada, and the United States.
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We set up the Lloyd 's Neck school, worked out its curriculum, and taught there.
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We set up the Lloyd 's Neck school, worked out its curriculum, and taught there.
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We set up the Lloyd 's Neck school, worked out its curriculum, and taught there.
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Toward the end of the war, we really felt that we had learned something about propaganda and how to teach it.
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Toward the end of the war, we really felt that we had learned something about propaganda and how to teach it.
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Toward the end of the war, we really felt that we had learned something about propaganda and how to teach it.
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When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.
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When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.
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When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.
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When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.
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When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.
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When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.
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When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.
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We hoped that its practitioners and teachers might be put on some sort of reserve list and called back for refresher courses each year or so.
hoped
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We hoped that its practitioners and teachers might be put on some sort of reserve list and called back for refresher courses each year or so.
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We hoped that its practitioners and teachers might be put on some sort of reserve list and called back for refresher courses each year or so.
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Alas, no such thing happened.
happened
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A study at the Pentagon and at the service academies revealed that nothing was being done there.
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And not one of the four men who attended all the schools has ever been called on to apply any of his knowledge in any way.
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And not one of the four men who attended all the schools has ever been called on to apply any of his knowledge in any way.
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And not one of the four men who attended all the schools has ever been called on to apply any of his knowledge in any way.
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Congratulations on the article `` Do We Need a College of Propaganda ''?
Need
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This is one of the most constructive suggestions made in this critical field in years, and I certainly hope it sparks some action.
is
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This is one of the most constructive suggestions made in this critical field in years, and I certainly hope it sparks some action.
made
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This is one of the most constructive suggestions made in this critical field in years, and I certainly hope it sparks some action.
hope
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This is one of the most constructive suggestions made in this critical field in years, and I certainly hope it sparks some action.
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Many of us in public relations were flattered that Richard L. Tobin chose to devote his editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public Relations Association.
flattered
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Many of us in public relations were flattered that Richard L. Tobin chose to devote his editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public Relations Association.
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Many of us in public relations were flattered that Richard L. Tobin chose to devote his editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public Relations Association.
devote
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I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.
was
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I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.
find
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I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.
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Whether in his forthcoming book C. P. Snow commits the errors of judgment and of fact with which your heavily autobiographical critic charged him is important.
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Whether in his forthcoming book C. P. Snow commits the errors of judgment and of fact with which your heavily autobiographical critic charged him is important.
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Whether in his forthcoming book C. P. Snow commits the errors of judgment and of fact with which your heavily autobiographical critic charged him is important.
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One should be able to get hold of the book at once.
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One should be able to get hold of the book at once.
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But the attack was made from an advance copy.
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If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.
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If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.
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If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.
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If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.
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If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.
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If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.
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If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.
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Editor 's Note : Sir Robert Watson-Watt wrote, on page 50 of SR / Research for 4 March 1961 : `` I have read an advance copy of the Snow book which is to be titled, ' Science and Government '.
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Editor 's Note : Sir Robert Watson-Watt wrote, on page 50 of SR / Research for 4 March 1961 : `` I have read an advance copy of the Snow book which is to be titled, ' Science and Government '.
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Editor 's Note : Sir Robert Watson-Watt wrote, on page 50 of SR / Research for 4 March 1961 : `` I have read an advance copy of the Snow book which is to be titled, ' Science and Government '.
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Until the work actually appears I am not privileged to analyze it publicly in detail.
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Until the work actually appears I am not privileged to analyze it publicly in detail.
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Until the work actually appears I am not privileged to analyze it publicly in detail.
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But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow 's incautious tale ''.
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But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow 's incautious tale ''.
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But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow 's incautious tale ''.
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Watson-Watt 's remarks in SR did not then, constitute a review of the book but a rebuttal to the Godkin Lectures.
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Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book 's publication date.
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Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book 's publication date.
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Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book 's publication date.
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Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book 's publication date.
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Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book 's publication date.
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The text of the book leaves a somewhat milder impression than the prepublication excerpt.
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Sir Robert Watson-Watt 's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow 's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles ' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.
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Sir Robert Watson-Watt 's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow 's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles ' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.
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Sir Robert Watson-Watt 's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow 's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles ' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.
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The article presents the reader with an absurdity at its beginning.
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It calls the conclusion admitted valid by `` historians and military strategists alike '' a `` perverted conclusion & & & nonsense ''.
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It calls the conclusion admitted valid by `` historians and military strategists alike '' a `` perverted conclusion & & & nonsense ''.
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It submits an enthusiastic, impressionistic conception of Lindemann contributing another aspect of the man, but on no more authoritative basis than Sir Charles ' account.
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It submits an enthusiastic, impressionistic conception of Lindemann contributing another aspect of the man, but on no more authoritative basis than Sir Charles ' account.
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We are left to choose between the two Lindemanns.
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We are left to choose between the two Lindemanns.
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The only fact that holds any weight in the article is the result of the tea party.
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The only fact that holds any weight in the article is the result of the tea party.
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But we are to believe that Lindemann actively supported radar outside the Tizard Committee, and dissembling, discounted it inside?
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But we are to believe that Lindemann actively supported radar outside the Tizard Committee, and dissembling, discounted it inside?
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But we are to believe that Lindemann actively supported radar outside the Tizard Committee, and dissembling, discounted it inside?
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But we are to believe that Lindemann actively supported radar outside the Tizard Committee, and dissembling, discounted it inside?
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But we are to believe that Lindemann actively supported radar outside the Tizard Committee, and dissembling, discounted it inside?
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If so, I would lean to Sir Charles ' conception of the man.
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I think it was a grave error to print the article at this time.
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I think it was a grave error to print the article at this time.
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I think it was a grave error to print the article at this time.
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To the unfortunate people unable to attend the Godkin lectures it casts an unjustifiable aura of falsehood over the book which may dissuade some people from reading it.
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To the unfortunate people unable to attend the Godkin lectures it casts an unjustifiable aura of falsehood over the book which may dissuade some people from reading it.
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To the unfortunate people unable to attend the Godkin lectures it casts an unjustifiable aura of falsehood over the book which may dissuade some people from reading it.
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