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...Think of the consequences if Robert’s Rules of Order were to be abandoned in favour of willy-nilly consensus building! The very purpose of any committee—to encourage safely contained confrontation??would be undermined completely if the objective suddenly became finding ways to agree about things. Worse still, a lack of vote tallies leaves some room for interpretation—those who rely on committees to make decisions for them might have to decide things for themselves. That would sink the Harvard administration once...
...Democratic Society staged a protest against visiting Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, who was speaking at Harvard on the Vietnam War (and who had, to be fair, declined to debate an editor of a liberal magazine while at Harvard). What ensued was a “physical confrontation?? just short of a riot, in which the embattled McNamara fled in his car through angry crowds on his way out of Cambridge. It was an event that prompted one Crimson reader to remark, in a letter to the editor, that “it seems apparent that...
According to Mahan, city officials are loathe to step up safety precautions in the Common because they do not want to admit that the symbolic heart of Cambridge has grown unsafe. Meanwhile, University officials—in an effort to avoid a town-gown confrontation??downplay the Common’s dangers...
...anyone can be said to have taken the red pill in his professional life—to have unflinchingly faced the darkest face of human mortality in an immediate, hands-on confrontation??it is Farmer...
...paintings. “Memories of a Sacrifice” shows the skull of a ram over bound branches. The bright oranges and reds again obscure the underlying anxiety of the painting. Although the ram is given for sacrifice, the viewer is aware of Weil’s bitter confrontation??Can we really escape the ram’s fate in the face of God’s demands...
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