Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confident then, that if Gen. Westmoreland chose to proceed, the jury could have ruled...
...were satitical, as my introductory statement tried to indicate. Along with the extravagantly metophoric paragraphs that introduce them, the title "President and Fellows" is meant as a gentle parody of the pretennons of most academic journals. I thought we were making out intentions clear by stating explicitly that we chose "a rousing name for an editorial board composed entirely of undergraduates and open to any undergraduate who wishes to join." But Harry, and any others who missed the understated explanation, can reassure themselves that the excesses of the Forum are entirely tongue-in-check...
...Steiner has quite misunderstood the ironies of the protest. It is ironic that while nearly 45 students who sat quietly on the second floor and studied the subject or apartheid in South Africa were addressed by Deans Epps and Toy, and Chief Johnson of the H.U.P.D., Mr. Steiner chose to remain on the first floor of the building, unseen. It is ironic, providing that Crimson had the correct quotation, that Mr. Steiner feels that President Reagan's policy-making regarding future investments in South Africa would have anything to do with Harvard's longstanding portfolio in South Africa. And finally...
...Sonny's Blues," for which she received the distinction of second place. The judges took 40 minutes to reach their decision, and announced that each of the contestants had an advocate in the deliberations. Nicole Galland, who presented LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk from Omelas"; Joseph Krailik, who chose Eliot's "Sweeney Agonistes: Fragment of an Agon"; Randloph McGrorty, who delivered Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; Philip Resnik, who recited Rilke's "Duino Elegies"; and Jeffrey Rosen, who enacted Cicero's "The Verine Orations," all deserve recognition of their oratory skills for becoming...
...American political and cultural psyche, a war that had to be fought because of the way we viewed ourselves and our role in the world. It was a war that was lost because Vietnam was not the country our leaders had decided it to be, and the reality they chose to see was completely unrelated to what the fighting in Vietnam, even before American troops arrived, was about...