Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Having participated in "The Thing in the Spring [April 26]" I am now absolutely certain that white people cannot hide a slum with a coat of paint-even if the suburbanites are the painters. The poor need low-cost housing-white America cannot paint that fact away...
...face it: mass-media newscasting [April 26] is now the global version of that old game, let's you and him fight. For profit, politics or publicity, we are perpetually assaulted, kicked in the adrenal glands, frustrated and depressed vicariously by the stream of reports on rape, riot and rebellion in places we know nothing about, will never see, can do nothing for, and which consume our energies and misdirect our concerns from our real individual responsibilities for job, family and community. One man's information is indeed another man's identification with militarism, license, revolt, sadism...
...Heartiest congratulations to President Peterson on keeping her cool in the Linda Le Clair affair [April 26]. The problem is not Barnard's, or that of any college. It was produced-and must be accepted by-the adult community. What I rebellious students overlook is the immutable equation that if one would contest the paternalistic supervision of the college, he must accept the legalistic restrictions and moral consequences of society. Even if Linda makes the minor point that some of the residential requirements of the college may trespass upon what she claims as her individual rights, has she proved...
...Your article "The Search for Something Else" [April 26] is a remarkably concise and exact expression of what has become the policy of the nation's leading colleges toward its admissions candidates. The extent to which this policy has manifested itself these past two years is noteworthy. We cannot help feeling sorry for the high-school senior who has maintained a straight A average for four years and has scored consistently in the mid-to-upper 700s on the College Board exams-and who is rejected at the school of his choice simply because he is not "different." Nevertheless...
...Thank you for the informative article on the Oscar Mayer company [April 12], and for printing what I consider to be my theme song. I love it and sing it at least twice a day. I teach high school French, so I ventured Oscar Mayer á la française...