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...high holy day of the American idea. It is also a beer bust. The Fourth is that odd American mixture of patriotic fervor and bleary ease, of sunburn and a deeper stirring. The Founders adopted the Declaration of Independence in July and not in February (imagine sending fireworks up in a snowstorm), and so the national birthday is both the nation's most powerful rite of communal identity and merely the lazy and unreflective beginning of high summer...
...that were all, there would also be nothing more to be written. But there is more there is the conclusion, reached without discussion, that Harvard should be destroyed for its sins. As we picketed in front of Burr Hall on the sunny spring morning after the Bust, an aged member of the Harvard Corporation, a dark hat shielding his face from the heavy sun, stormed and raged at us, demanded that we consider what we were doing asked whether we wanted to destroy Harvard University. No reason occurred to me why Harvard should not be destroyed. Harvard's only...
Given the confluence of events and personalities, the answer was a resounding nothing. Pusey, a religious man with a passion for civility and reason, seemed particularly ill-suited to handle or even comprehend the conflict. After the bust in April 1969 the Faculty, divided into factions, began to assert its power. As Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs Samuel P. Huntington said at the time. "After the bust, there was basically no legitimate authority in the University." Authority had lost all claims to respect, and the ascendancy of President Derek C. Bok in 1971 did not offer much promise...
...preview its fall programming season and to reinforce its image as the No. 1 sports broadcaster. Attracting a large audience for the Summer Games grew all the more crucial when last February's Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, for which ABC paid $91 million, proved to be a ratings bust. Viewership for those telecasts, according to some advertising-industry estimates, was 25% below expectation, and the network was forced to repay shortchanged advertisers with free commercial spots later, some of them during the Summer Olympics...
...lacks the effete liberalism Harvard usually packages its filth in. After Hitler, dare we ask, what next? A Torquemada scholarship in Jewish Affairs?. . . a P.W. Botha fellowship in Race Relations?...invite Charles Manson to lecture on the symbiosis of religions and murder?...grace the Business School with a bust of Robert Vesco...