Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much. There's just no telling. The only certain thing is that--whether we go to Mars or not--the choice has been made. You can see it in our literature; you can see it reflected in the increasing use of drugs; you can see it in self-conscious (and, perhaps, selfish) catharsis for guilt and boredom like the occupation of University Hall. We have chosen like the streets of our own minds over the highways to the stars...
Much of this was conscious baiting, but even more of it was an expression of frustration at endless stories and reports followed by little or no action. As LIFE's Jack Rosenthal noted, "The frustration is not so much with the press as with the public, which doesn't respond. There is a natural tendency to blame the messenger for failure to get the message across." Some reporters refused to be drawn into the arguments. "I refuse to bore you with my opinions," Bill Buckley remarked imperiously to one hostile audience. But the continual hostility brought out occasional...
...YEARBOOK'S decision to let pictures tell the story would make more sense if the photos had been selected with a bit more care. The good ones (like the WHRB series or the girl combing her hair on page 117) are all the time undercut by self-conscious posed snapshots and full-page pictures of subjects like a Radcliffe bulletin board or a Harvard toilet. Graphically, the book seems reasonably inventive and handsome, though the moody two-page shot of an athlete running up the Soldier's Field steps with last year's sports scores illegibly super-imposed in matching...
...some extent the Harvard administration seemed to explain this bias as a conscious reflection of an educational philosophy. Harvard was to train the leaders of tomorrow. Its glory was partly its mix of gentlemen and scholars. There was the expression of a conscious attempt to maintain the University's institutional power and prestige by placing itself at the service of the American ruling elite...
...body is remarkably undiverse. It is decidedly weighted toward upper incomes and upper classes. The two reasons for this were shown to be: (1) the high cost of coming to Harvard and the increasingly inadequate scholarship program, which de facto discriminates against lower and middle income groups; and (2) conscious admissions policies. The first of these arguments is entirely, and the second partially, based on the assertion that Harvard is caught in a financial squeeze which means it must accept largely people who can pay for their education now and can support the University in the future. But the long...