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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with In the Matter of J. Rob ert Oppenheimer, Heinar Kipphardt of fers audiences at Lincoln Center's Vivi an Beaumont Theater the chance to weep over the renowned physicist who in 1954 was deprived of his security clearance. The three-man board rep resenting the Atomic Energy Commission sits in courtroom-style judgment as the testimony unfolds like an in terminable dream. Lawyers, friends, enemies discourse on Oppenheimer's Communist relations and friends, on his in spired leadership of the team of physicists who produced the atomic bomb, and on his reluctance to lend himself...
...will help not one bit for Jensen or the HER editorial board to protest that they did not intend for Jensen's article to be used in this way. For in addition to superiority in performing conceptual cluster tricks on test sheets, the hard line segregationist is also vastly superior in his ability to bury qualifying phrases and demurrers and in his ability to distort and slant facts and batter his undereducated clientele into a complete state of hysteria where race is concerned...
JENSEN and the HER editorial board will modestly admit that they have superior intellects and I am sure they realized the consequences of their actions. Questions now arise as to why they decided to raise this issue, in this way, and at this time...
They could fly as black men to Boston or Oakland and make the same applications to the craft union nearest the airport. Or they could try to get a tenured appointment in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, or a spot on the HER editorial board, or simply a rank higher than assistant professor among the 7,000 member Harvard faculty...
Boston is far ahead of most cities in bringing neighborhood people into the planning process, said Atkins, but not far enough. An elected neighborhood board was allowed to make changes in the original Boston Model Cities plan...