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...course of a double-feature in a Cambridge movie house. To a large extent, my presence there means that, for me, the revolution never will be won at all. But at least I can claim for myself the partial victory that lies in honesty. I can refuse to applaud Soldier Blue and, by so doing, refuse to applaud my impotent understanding of the need for revolution. For the killing doesn't stop with Nelson's final reel. It continues and it would be criminal for me to pretend otherwise. I may not be able to end the murder in this...
...academic" issue, and Harvard refuses to get involved until the Holyoke Center air conditioning fails. Meeting in emergency session, the Faculty votes to allow people to eat in the Faculty Club without coats and ties. After the meeting, George Wald calls reporters into his test tube to applaud the decision. "It's not the heat," he explains. "It's the humility." The crisis ends after two weeks when air pollution finally blocks out the sun completely. Both the liberal and conservative Faculty caucuses take credit for this last-minute arrangement...
...buoyant Irish priest, Moynihan decided to part on an inspirational note. He rose in the White House to speak at a year-end meeting of Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officers, and when he had finished some of the assembled Nixon men were wiping away tears as they stood to applaud...
...Incarnation. During the group sessions, however, camaraderie grows. A cheerful, plump woman reports suffering a five-stitch scalp cut earlier in the day but finding she did not need a cigarette to ease the shock. We applaud. Arthur, however, still craves a smoke. "I started to eat a carnation at our table," he says, "and it was better than spinach. But I know that if I really get to like them, Ralph Nader will come out next day and tell me that carnations are injurious to my health...
...result, Peterson said that in examining the plan, Harvard's policy would be cautious. It's a step backward when you start giving out loans rather than scholarship. We may have to step backward but we should not applaud...