Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson, too, was enigmatically encouraging at his press conference. He showed himself content to have helped get negotiations started by renouncing a second term and declaring a partial bombing halt. "I think the decision of March 31st was indicated, was justified," he said, "and I am more pleased by it every hour that goes by." If that meant the Paris negotiations would get serious any hour-or that an end to more than four years of U.S. bombing in North Viet Nam was imminent-he was not telling...
...only Miss Oates were content to be just a modern romancer-to go all the way with her unnerved vision. Her trouble is that she seems to regard her book variously as a black-humor exercise, a parable of national sickness of heart, and, worst of all, a realistic piece of social reportage. Too cool for fantasy, too hysterical for imagination, Expensive People says too little half the time, and too much the other half...
Peter H. Wood, teaching fellow in the course, said that criticism of the course is good because Soc Sci 5 is most amenable to change. Wood also said "the students really care enough about the content of the course" to devote their energies toward constructive change. He said, however, that more of the dissatisfaction with the course should have been expressed to the section...
Student criticism remains centered on the content of the lectures. "The real problem," said one junior, "is that Freidel [Frank Freidel, professor of History] devotes all his time to refuting prejudices his audience does not hold. The lecture series might better be called 'Negro Heroes I Have Known'--it consists of black equivalents of the George Washington cherry tree tale...
...talk rarely varies in content, but the format does. Wallace simply chooses from his compendium of evils as they come to mind. "Now I want to say something about Viet Nam," he will say by way of introduction, or "Let's talk about law 'n' order." While the crowd is cheering, he will often spit quickly and inconspicuously into a white handkerchief...