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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Others, however, allow that the lines along which professors divided could be legitimately labeled "conservative" and "liberal" in the context of the time. James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, says the emergence of the caucuses--both liberal and conservative--was basically a healthy, even necessary, development. "It made debate more manageable by providing a forum for the essential conduct of Faculty business," he says...
...Class of '72 for two years, worked for anti-war candidates before entering college. But, as she says, she "hadn't exactly been exposed to a lot of political debate in a girls' boarding school." At Harvard she began to view the war in what she describes as "the context of a larger critique of society." She, too, became one of the roughly 300 active members...
...deeply moving, but the TV version is cluttered with cliches and civics lessons. The best TV show about the American involvement in Asia remains CBS's Korean War sitcom M*A*S*H -and M*A*S*H, though controversial by old TV standards, is antiwar in a context shorn of politics and anesthetized by the bedside black humor and reassuring personalities of its principals...
...armed radical guerrillas would then take vengeance into their own hands. "I'm disappointed by the way the trials have been conducted under closed auspices," says Princeton's Richard Falk, "but we must remember that those men executed were implicated in crimes against their people. In that context, we can compare their punishments with war criminals in Germany and Japan who were killed for crimes against humanity...
...lost. The Chain of Chance's most distinctive feature, when seen in the context of Lem's body of work, is that it purports to have a solution. In the book's denouement, John unravels the mystery and at last everything becomes understandable. This may be routine for a detective story, but for Lem it is a radical break from his tradition of leaving stories open-ended...