Word: commentating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense of the faculty is that they've had it and they're not in the mood to change anything this year," Francis G. Hutchins, assistant professor of Government and the department's head tutor, said last night. Samuel P. Huntington, chairman of the department, was unavailable for comment...
...will come around to your point of view. This is what has happened to the Harvard faculty. It is like a newspaper: what is most influential is not what a newspaper says on its editorial page but what it decides to put on its front page, regardless of editorial comment...
...have been asked to comment on the disciplinary actin to be accorded to the students who seized University Hall. In accordance with the recommendation of the Faculty we have proceeded as effectively as we can't to have the pending criminal charges dropped; we regret that our efforts to date have not been successful. As to academic discipline, many years ago the governing boards delegated responsibility for internal disciplinary matters to the respective faculties. Therefore, it is not appropriate for us to comment on the internal disciplinary problem until the faculties have acted...
...fire the Smothers Brothers? Tommy Smothers says the network is against free speech. CBS says that Tommy and Dick broke their contract. ABC and NBC say no comment. Dick says ask Tommy. The one sure thing is that the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour - since 1967 one of TV's few sources of new ideas and sparkle -is off the air for this season and next...
...both the Smothers Brothers and CBS, the deeper issue is whether comedians have the right to make impertinent statements without network interference. Tommy and Dicky maintain that every self-respecting wit must lace his humor with social comment. Further, they say, CBS's insistence on its "responsibility" to edit out "bad taste" only perpetuates blandness and denies a forum of expression to young adults (who form nearly one-third of the Smothers audience), blacks, and any other minority with "unpopular" opinions.*"No one gets after Bob Hope for his views on the war," says Tommy acerbically. "How the hell...