Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those who do not complain are never pitied, and the quiet death of the University's most distinguished publication, the Harvard Library Bulletin (the final page of the autumn number informs the reader tersely that "By decision of the University administration, the Bulletin ceases publication with the present issue") has aroused little grief locally...
...snarling defiance of the cops, critics of the film note that even Committee Investigator William Wheeler admitted "distortions" in the editing, e.g., footage shown out of time sequence, claim that the Communist influence is exaggerated. A careful sifting of evidence by a team of San Francisco News-Call Bulletin reporters supports the critics. San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher gives his qualified approval of the movie but acknowledges that "at least 90% of the students were not organized by the Communists." Fact is that nobody comes off very well in Operation Abolition. Commentator Lewis reaches for smooth explanations that...
...clock on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is now at seven minutes to mid-night. Realists and idealists alike will be clock-watching in the 60's, and it is possible that just this will prevent them from exercising their proper function as sober analysts...
...twelve will evoke the Edmund Hilary in many a student. On one occasion, quite recently, a New College climber fell from a drain-pipe and hung for some minutes skewered through the thigh before his howls brought rescue. A few days later, this notice appeared on the College bulletin board: "Men are requested to make less noise getting in at night, or else we shall be obliged to strengthen our defences...
This spiritual bulletin appears in France's "Christian review" Esprit (most of whose editors are Roman Catholics), in a special issue devoted to La Sexualité. The magazine's contributors take it for granted that a "sexual revolution" has taken place, citing, among other examples, the "new wave" of French films. The new sexuality is a result of 1) the Industrial Revolution, which emancipated women economically, and 2) the "greatest biological invention of modern times," contraception, which emancipated them sexually and enabled them to determine the size of the family.* But France is still a patriarchal society based...