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Kluckhohn Issues Call For '5-Cent Ideology'

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"What this country needs is "a good five-cent ideology," Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, told a Babson Institute audience yesterday.

If we continue to fight "with the technology of 1950 but the ideas of 1850," we shall not not only lose the cold war but would be likely to lose any hot war as well, the anthropologist declared.

"The greatest weakness of Americans today is that we seem to know only where we don't want to go," he continued. "We repudiate the brutal tyrannies of the police state. We are not likely in the near future to follow in detail the program of British socialism. But it is noteworthy that even the famous Four Freedoms are negative freedoms."

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