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In presenting these comparisons below it seems imperative that they be expressed in the context of the larger society around the university, where increasing street crime, drug use, family dissolution, political corruption, and general anti-intellectualism have so drastically escalated since the 1950's as to threaten the foundations of...

Author: By John E. Chappell jr., | Title: Harvard Revisited | 7/9/1974 | See Source »

This is not to say that some of these courses are not awkwardly organized and taught. The new concern with resources and ecology, for instance, has caught Harvard with a venerable tradition of relegating the study of unsophisticated subjects like food and soil almost entirely to the land grant colleges...

Author: By John E. Chappell jr., | Title: Harvard Revisited | 7/9/1974 | See Source »

(9 of 13) to take criticism in stride (despite all the practice) or to accord aggressive journalism a legitimate role in relation to Government. Going back to his days as a young Congressman, he has been quicker than most politicians to question the motives of those who cross him. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COYER STORY: COVERING WATERGATE: SUCCESS AND BACKLASH | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

People who live and work at the richest university in the world are accustomed to a feeling of protection--economic security which implies physical security. The criminal threat to that security arose most furiously at a time when another important psychic power source--heat and light--was also being severed...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Crime Continues To Rise | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

Because he has given himself so much time, Eustache can do things much more subtly than he could have in a feature-length film. So many conceptual avant-garde movies have burdened us with their length--like Andy Warhol's eight hours of the Empire State building--that we are...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: A Tale Without a Moral | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

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