Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That competence is not to serve as a government, or a consulting firm, or a polity, or a pressure group, or a family, or a kind of secularized church; it is to serve as a center of learning and free inquiry. Because of the devotion to learning, and a belief in the importance of ideas, people come together in universities; and it is an awareness, however dim and however cluttered by departmental and disciplinary boundaries, of that common devotion that makes the members of a university feel they are part of a community and not simply journeymen in some guild...
...seems a widespread feeling among the Harvard community that the Jan. 14 faculty decision on the fate of the Paine Hall demonstrators was an example of unusual tolerance. A serious misconception lies in such a belief, a misconception that should be dispelled by the following letter, sent by Dean Elder after the Tuesday meeting to each of the graduate students involved...
...surprisingly, Brown has been strongly influenced by John Cage, the father of aleatory, or "chance," music. But he no longer agrees with Cage's belief that random aberrations in a performance are as valid artistically as the composed parts. What Brown is after is a responsible, controlled and more human improvisatory collaboration between composer and performer. "This is music by choice, not chance," he says. "My music enlarges the potential for musicians to take a more creative part in the music; yet I am not interested in everybody just doing his thing. I didn't compose by chance...
...board's staff, Brimmer said that even if the nation's real economic growth slowed to practically nothing for one or two quarters, the result would be only a 0.2% rise in the jobless rate, now at a 15-year low of 3.3%. The findings reinforce the belief that the Nixon Administration will have a bit of leeway in which to move against wage-price rises without causing a significant increase in unemployment. But Brimmer and the other Federal Reserve governors believe that "some increase" in the jobless rolls will be unavoidable in a successful fight against inflation...
Putting aside, for the time being, discussion of the kind of politics which Howe considers "responsible," I would never deny that a desparate preoccupation with personal style, a self-pitying concern with one's own alienation, a fascination with violence and confrontation, and an "unreflective belief in the decline of the West" (and of America), are very bad things, and should be combatted in SDS, as well as in the world. Howe wants to leap from those pedestrian warnings to a view of the Left which see those tendencies as almost inevitably coming to dominate the direction of radicalism...