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...Hundreds of letters and telegrams and countless telephone calls have rolled over him. Job offers have piled up−invitations to lecture, to teach, to write. Then last week came a moment of special satisfaction for Schlesinger, who at times had walked a lonely path. The Senate voted to commend him "for his excellence in office, his intellectual honesty and personal integrity, and for his Senate, such language is quite courage and independence." Even in the unusual...
...commend The Crimson for its excellent November 12 editorial reminding the Harvard community that the struggle to gain fair representation for agricultural workers is not over. The United Farm Workers' boycott of non-UFW iceberg lettuce and table grapes and Gallo wines will indeed continue until contracts are signed...
...Percy's claim to a perspective that "can commend itself ... more by reason of its ignorance than its knowledge" is more than an attack on the scientists' narrow focus; it questions the fitness of an analytical, scientific method to the task of comprehending language. Not quite a full-fledged mystic, Percy nevertheless doubts not only the possibility, but also the ultimate worth of understanding. On the one hand he glories in the achievement, unique to the human race, of making the associative leap from the group of sounds in balloon to the real balloon; yet at the same time...
Until historians ascertain what additional facts and alternatives, if any, were available to President Ford, they cannot complete their evaluation of the Mayaguez crisis other than to commend the courage of our armed forces. But clearly, they will not compare this incident to the Cuban missile crisis-a potential nuclear confrontation between two superpowers that was ultimately resolved through delicate negotiations without the U.S. firing a single shot or losing more than a single man. J.F.K., unlike Ford, supported by every nation in the affected area and acting with caution and candor, avoided a direct clash, utilized...
...Times reporter nodded as two Princeton seniors told him proudly that applications to the eating clubs had gone up steadily over the past two years. A member of the Princeton class of '71 joined the conversation to commend the "new breed" of students--not like the grubby, noisy activists of his day, he noted. "I think it's good thing that students are turning back to study and to introspection, that they're thinking about things again," he declared, as the crowd pressed eagerly around the gambling tables, apparently thinking very intently about what number would come up next...