These five young people--chosen for this show by the Dean's office--are not
going to be taken in by their genial host, no sirree. It's touching to watch them bear out Mr. Massie's diagnosis, above; and heartening to see how Mr. Buckley deals with them. One sample: GG: "Mr. Buckley, here at Yale a Chicano-Puerto Rican concentration was developed under American Studies, which I guess in your opinion qualifies as a meaningless concentration.... I think the history of a people in this country and the progress that they've made is very meaningful." WFB: "Well, I think if you study it as history or if you study it as sociology or even if you study it as anthropology it's interesting. What is not interesting is to study it ideologically, and I have a feeling that an awful lot of ideology is creeping into the study of the progress of Chicanos or blacks or women. That is not only, I think, mischievous intellectually, but I think also it tends to crank up an ideological view of the world that gets in the way of clearer vision after you've graduated."
- Hoover ID: Program S0652
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