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...list of student groups working in some way for the city is perhaps surprising. Apart from members of the Phillips Brooks House, which sends out the most students, undergraduates on such organizations as the Harvard University Band and students at the Loeb Drama Center manage to break down the barrier between themselves and the residents of the city...
...live in a Harvard housing development. The only real contact we have is with other Harvard people," observed William W. Hillier '62, who lives with his wife in an apartment in Shaler Lane. Even away from the Square, the same barrier exists, which, for example, separates Dunster House from the neighborhood right at its back door...
...succeed in the youth culture is to fall into an orbit where clipping is a diversion and vandalism a style of self-assertion. To enter the school is to face up to middle class values, and the barrier is virtually impenetrable. Youth returning from school take off their school clothes as if removing prison uniforms. More than half quit school as soon as the law allows. Little wonder that parents turn to the settlement house and ask, "Why don't you make the kids behave...
...afternoon the politician in Lyndon took over again from the statesman. Setting out on a tour of local sights, Johnson spotted a crowd gathered on the sidewalk. He stopped his car, got out and made for the crowd at a lope, flashing a 100-watt smile. Ignoring the language barrier, he made an impromptu speech saying that Diem was the "Churchill of the decade," who would "fight Communism in the streets and alleys, and when his hands are torn he will fight it with his feet...
...apartheid," then many gentiles would convert to Judaism. "Judaism presents Jewish monotheism in its original form and not in the derivative forms in which it is presented in Christianity and Islam," he argued. "If the abandonment of ethnic reservations were complete and genuine on both sides, the traditional caste barrier between Jews and non-Jews would be likely to be broken down by more and more frequent intermarriage . . . The positive gain would be that the great spiritual treasures of Judaism . . . would at last become one of the common spiritual possessions of the whole human race...