Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have not pondered these questions thoroughly. And I must begin with this assumption if only, because, as one lives a little longer, one sees how elusive good intentions are within the web of institutions. The single most difficult factor in our relations with the students at Harvard, as they come forward to private places for help, is the appearance of a new sensibility among those students which defies our traditional ideas, manner of approach and old solutions...
...recently I bought a record of his autobiographical poems. I think these poems told me how he came to wrest a new view of the world from his old background. And, as I remember his poetry, with the fragmentary recall we use to remember such literature, these themes come to mind: love, anger at unintended cruelty, cynicism, a restlessness in the presence of old portraits, and a cry that someone discover a new order and resting place for the soul...
...humane is to be found in a great deal of liberal talk. It seems in a bland definition that one is kind and considerate, and, of course, that is not enough. And this definition certainly does not reflect the new sensibility to which I referred. The way one must "come on" nowadays to be "with it" is a style that is more crazy than the liberal way would have...
...define humanity, that his version of it meant in some sense care, concern, and kindness. But we do not live by definitions, rather by the individual will and style that is a part of us, and by which we cope with the world and meet the people who come our way. I think the new sensibility asks that we talk to people in our offices or the Harvard dining halls sitting on the edge of our chairs...
...come finally to the moral questions now in debate. At the moment, everyone at Harvard is concerned and worried in some way about the political course that Harvard. All take; whether we go to the right or to the left or hold to a course that will insure the preservation of a liberal definition of academic freedom; and a definition that says we should live by tolerance, and every man should have his say and should enjoy free access to all ideas and enjoy free movement. The debate over political questions is of very secondary interest...