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SINCE THERE was great awareness at last night's meeting that a strike related to the University would be a bad mistake, we need not take the time to dispose of that canard. And what remains for us to adopt is a strategy involving visible, physical protest and demonstration against the war. Here again, it would be silly to depend on a one-shot, Moratorium-style strategy: our demonstrations must be continuous, and they must escalate in size and militancy. And to grow, they must carry with them a large measure of strong political logic. They may begin with marches...
...canard about feminine instability would be the greatest handicap. Surgeon Edgar Berman earned a low place in the bestiary of Women's Liberation two years ago when he suggested that because of their hormonal chemistry women might be too emotional for positions of power. Yet despite that reputation-or because of it-women in politics have proved just as stable and sometimes as steely as any man. After all, Edmund Muskie wept publicly during the New Hampshire primary campaign last month. It was Richard Nixon, not his wife Pat, who broke down after he was defeated in the California...
Finally, although this supplement is written as a civil polemic against youth culture lifestyle politics, it would be a great mistake to take the theme of the piece as an equation of the New Left with Fascism. That canard was used opportunistically by Senior Faculty several years ago and seems to us to be no less malarky now than it was then. Those who saw Hitler Youth in University Hall deliberately allowed the contours of their analogy to obscure the political content of New Left anti-war agitation...
...rural population--by forcing that population into urban areas controlled by the government" is totally devoid of truth--a fact of which any regular reader of the Crimson over the past two years should be well aware by now. In response to your last publication of a similar canard, I set the record straight at some length in your May 25th issue of last year. And there were several other correcting letters before that. Now your continued infatuation with this falsehood forces me to repeat once again what I have said before...
Nothing riles California Horse Trainer Charles Whittingham more than the old clubhouse canard that West Coast thoroughbreds are not worth their oats until they have proved themselves on Eastern tracks. With Ack Ack, winner of seven straight stakes races in California, Whittingham felt that he had the horse to show up the haughty Easterners once and for all. Before he could be entered in the $113,000 Woodward Stakes at New York's Belmont Park last October, however, Ack Ack was sidelined with a case of colic. In his stead, Whittingham went with Cougar II, a horse that...