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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard's radical voice: As to the derivation of "Old Mole," why strain it out of Marx? Why not much more likely in cultivated Harvard from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5, when the Ghost beneath the platform says: "Swear." And Hamlet: "Well said, old mole! Canst work i' th' earth so fast? A worthy pioneer...
...prophetic, guttural voice is the sign of that attempt. And innocence, the breaking off of memory, is not a Christian innocence, not piety, but a form which affirmation takes. "Innocence," Ungaretti writes, "we have learned of what it's made. It has appeared before us, and kept us beneath its still vast wings, through the disorders of our lives." JAMES ATLAS
...buggies: soft sand slows a vehicle down. In this system, large plastic drums of sand are grouped in front of bridge abutments, overpass piers, large sign stanchions and similar highway danger points. The drums break when hit by a speeding vehicle, absorbing much of the impact and scattering sand beneath the wheels to slow it further. Cheap and easy to install and replace, the Inertial Barrier System was invented by John Fitch, a former racing driver whose teammate accidentally killed himself and more than 80 spectators when he crashed through an old-fashioned race-track barrier at Le Mans, France...
...that they will be used, seduced, or played off against one another. If Nixon regards the press as a friendly adversary rather than an auxiliary tool of Government, his relative aloofness also means that reporters must work harder to scratch the smooth White House veneer and find what lies beneath it. So far, key presidential aides have proved to be much more wary of candid revelations than those of the past two Administrations...
...Puritan past. According to widely accepted tradition, the whole thing was whipped up by Cotton Mather and the lesser clergymen of a frowning theocracy. Before it was over, the story goes, 19 men and women were convicted and hanged as witches, and one man was pressed to death beneath large rocks for refusing to plead. The tradition holds that the executions were the result of a repressive fanaticism in the Puritan character. Underlying this modern attitude toward the Salem trials is a smug belief that since we do not now believe in the power of witchcraft, the existence of witchcraft...