Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your article on astrology [March 21], you included a description and picture of a white witch-Dennis Boiling (Antares Auriel); I am that person. Apart from slandering the great witch mother and high priestess Sybil Leek, the article was a wretched anathema...
This letter to you is to state my support for Harvard's decision to use police against the student demonstrators earlier this week. Apart from the merits of the ROTC issue, Harvard ought not to make its policy decisions in response to mob tactics. There is no intellectual future for any university dominated by overprivileged juveniles who are intoxicated by mob power...
...moral respectability except in a context of genuine pacifism, which is a philosophy which few student demonstrators profess and which many of them betray by their actions. The anti-ROTC movement is mainly an expression of the kind of youthful identity crisis described so well by Erik Erikson. Apart from the fact that this type of emotional crisis makes it difficult to think rationally about complex issues, it appears that the effects are more intense among those young people who are more affluent and more highly educated...
...year, but his performance only confirmed the medical diagnosis. In batting practice he missed pitches by a full foot. In exhibition games he struck out constantly. Finally, after fanning three times against the Washington Senators, he stormed into the clubhouse and, as one observer recalled, "nearly tore the place apart...
...think it is a mistaken but logical reaction to be upset that the University administration called outside police on campus. Everything else we are taught here fosters the myth that the University and its members should be a privileged enclave set apart from ordinary society. (It is precisely this myth that allows unjust practices such as the blithe displacement of the less well-educated people unfortunate enough to live in areas where the University wants to expand; or that makes it OK to send our guys who couldn't stomach high school to Vietnam as cannon fodder, while deferring those...