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Thai students brought down their country's military dictatorship last month. If their counterparts elsewhere fail this week, it will be not because they are less brave--courage like theirs is a theme for romance or epic poetry--but because the United States, to its disgrace, arms their assassins...
...members of the ruling-class--Loeb, Lowell and Lamont--be named instead for those, such as that great and gentle Harvard drop-out named Pete Seeger, who had the brains to quit before his heart was dead and soul was cold? When, too, will we see buildings named for brave and rebel women such as Helen Keller in the Radcliffe Quad? Is it not time to rediscover use of chisel upon granite, use of hammer upon stone...
...Brave scholars...
Time seems to make few changes. Still, in each decade, there are those who stand, speak out, express their indignation with full power and passion. The brave, distinguished Harvard scholars, George Wald, Erik Erikson, and Robert Coles are three such bold exceptions in our time. None, I think, will wish to be identified with all of my own views. There is a certain protocol at Harvard which commands a mild degree of kindness and discretion to one's fellow-members of the Common Room. It is, indeed, this very kindness which at length proves most alarming...
...surrender by compromise on the Jackson amendment [Oct. 1] would be to betray and seal the fate of the many Sakharovs, the countless brave men and women of the U.S.S.R. who have put their necks out for the freedom that we always shout about and supposedly fight wars for. Shame on you for suggesting compromise...