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Further, the undersigned abhor the medieval atmosphere and procedures of the hearings conducted by the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. That Committee's disclaimer does not decrease the repugnance of closed, heavily-guarded trials of which there is no public transcript made available and from which there is no appeal to any higher body. The simple fact that Harvard is a private institution does not exempt it from employing the most rudimentary standards of justice in disciplinary relationships with its students...
...Swimming. Well aware that corporations abhor bad publicity, the antiplant forces have hired a full-time publicist to trumpet the consequences of pollution. Recently they called in ecologists from the University of Georgia to chart the plant's potential effects on marine life. Three weeks ago, Ecologist Barry Commoner helped them to organize a symposium on conservation that was attended by representatives from the National Audubon Society. The cause also got a boost from vacationing college students who staged a protest in downtown Beaufort, chanting "Progress without pollution...
Armand decided early to bombard his brood with the self-improvement lessons that most children congenitally abhor. Not Raquel. She devoured them. She was particularly enthralled by the ballet lessons that Armand thought would give her poise. What they did was give her ideas, which she now sentimentalizes. "I saw The Red Shoes ten times," she recalls. "I decided then that I wanted to be a ballerina." She has plenty of aptitude for the dance, according to her former teacher, Irene Clark, but hardly the proper spirit. "There was no humility in her approach to art," remembers Miss Clark...
...jobs and, more subtly, self-expression. Women, they say, are constantly put down by the ads that ask "Does she ... or doesn't she?" or proclaim "You've come a long way, baby," because, of all things, she has supposedly got her own cigarette. The militants abhor Playboy as well as most women's magazines, which take an equally narrow view of the woman's role. To demonstrate their disgust and alienation from sexist society, the angries picket the Miss America contest, burn brassieres, and dump into "freedom trashcans" such symbols of female "oppression" as lingerie...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim to decide what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C-, (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C-a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read...