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...unnecessarily humble, but I make two points. I think I'm as well qualified, or better qualified to run for the presidency now, in this year of 1968, than President John Kennedy was qualified in 1960, when he made the bid. And I think if you take into account the matter of the knowledge one should have of government, and the identification with the people of this country, and look at my record in both cases, on that broad base I think, even after the announcement this morning, that I'm still the best potential President...
Love Is Blue is concocted according to an entirely different recipe. Its rocking rhythm cradles a plaintive, folklike melody swathed in lush strings and horns. It is an all-instrumental number, the first to become a bestseller since 1963. And it is practically gimmick-free, which may account for its unusual staying power at the top of the charts: this week in Billboard the single release ranks as No. 2 after five weeks in the No. 1 slot, where the average tenure is only a little more than two weeks. The album containing the song is still No. 1, outselling...
...more than 27 per cent of Harvard graduate students come from other colleges. The Council's study did not take this into account...
...there were no Marxists on the Harvard Faculty I was not "pushing for more Marxists" as your reporter claims. My primary concern in asking the question was not the University's personnel policies. My intention was to ask a much more serious question. "How could members of the Council account for the absence at Harvard (and at most American universities) of serious intellectuals falling within the Marxist tradition...
...American intellectual life which I sought in my questioning. The Marxist approach stresses social conflict, the primacy of economic life and the role of the common man in the workings of society and in social change. What in American society and in the social position of American intellectuals can account for the short shrift which such an immensely valuable approach has received, especially in recent decades, from American thinkers? It does not follow automatically, at least to my mind, that the absence or weakness of the Marxist intellectual tradition in America means that the tradition and the questions it asks...