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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Liberal faculty are almost unanimous in placing a large share of the blame on Pusey for bad communication, and for polarizing faculty and students. "The whole thing was avoidable--it took the inflexibility of Pusey and Harvard's built-in arrogance. Pusey was like Dean Rusk--he felt that God was on his side," Thomson notes...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: On the Left | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

There was hostility everywhere, Fallows remembers. Students fought among themselves and against the Faculty. The Faculty itself was bitterly divided. "Attitudes like that were not part of the solution but part of the problem," he says. "Everyone was to blame...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Memories Of April | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

...blame for the failure of this Romeo and Juliet must lie at the feet of Hughes and Shannon Gaughan as Juliet. Neither goes beyond the broad label of 'youth' to find some more specific trait in their characters to highlight; neither is terribly graceful on stage; and both annoyingly exploit some vocal and some non-verbal mannerisms...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Wherefore Art? | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

...Joint Chiefs of Staff went fishing in the ocean and returned emptyhanded, they'd probably blame it on a lack of available fish. In truth, there is no shortage of young men; it's just that with its reluctance to change with the times, the military is able to attract only 13% of the country's youth. Changing of the hair regulations alone would probably attract millions more into the armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 23, 1979 | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...lack of communication and understanding" between the faculty and students. While he says he did not oppose all the students' demands, he "thought they were going about it in the wrong way." Students have become more academically-oriented in the last decade. Bryant observes, but doesn't let the blame rest. "Harvard has traditionally relied on tutorial-like instruction," the professor of Bibliography (a non-teaching position) notes. "Faculty are going to have to spend more time and energy and there will have to be changes," he says...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Bryant Steps Down: The Man Behind the Stacks | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

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