Word: actions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's November Action Committee last night considered a "blocking action" at the M.I.T. Instrumentation Laboratories and a possible occupation of the Center for International Affairs...
...Current theories of international relations operate within a social context in which truth, superstition, and different conceptions of ends and means struggle for influence upon thought and action. It is not by accident that they are lavishly supported by foundations, highly prized by academic institutions, and influential at least at the margins of governmental action. For they perform two important ideological functions, one for themselves, the other for the official doctrines of international relations...
...students on the governing body of the Department of Afro-American Studies ?s, to put it bluntly, non-existent! It is, therefore, rather disingenuous of those members of the Faculty who supported the decision to place students on the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies to continue rationalizing their action in terms of the "certain expertise" of these students...
...what happened in regard to the composition of the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies, and I wish that those responsbile for this decision (insofar as they voted for it on the floor of the Faculty Meeting) would cease their search for spurious and gratuitous explanations of their action...
ROBIN WOOD'S book, the best in English on Hitchcock, analyzes seven of his later films in terms of guilt and cleansing. For Wood Hitchcock's plots implicate his characters in some immoral action, often a murder, and then let them make restitution. Overcoming a psychological paralysis of spirit and action that characterizes guilty men. Hitchcock's characters increase their moral breadth through their confrontation with their capacity for evil. At the same time Hitchcock involves his audiences in the guilty action or in condemnation of the guilty man, then makes them reconsider this endorsement. Wood's structural analysis explains...