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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would allow that to happen to ourselves; already we cringe at the mention of the term "Radcliffe bitch." But we are not really tring to dissolve the impression. Instead, we are scurrying about in college, developing career goals only, when we could be developing friendships and strength within the context of asserting the potential that we know we have, and that has been denied in other women for centuries...
...Christianity. Unlike the fifties, according to Gomes, this movement is not a "revival of Christian faith, piety and devotion, or interest in the church." Gomes refuses to judge this "charismatic movement" yet; "There's not enough in on this business to say anything," he commented. In its historical context, the movement is the subject of a Lowell House seminar Gomes is conducting this semester, entitled "Images of Jesus in Western Culture...
...PRIMARY TASKS are to understand and to organize. Not to formulate abstract moral principles divorced from historical knowledge, but to understand the specific struggles of the Vietnamese, of America's poor, and of American radicals as a start. Evaluated in this context, the conflicting demands of morality in Vietnam and the U.S. will begin to make sense. We do not need to romanticize either foreign peasants or American workers. Nor should we assume that we can lead either group to liberation single-handedly. Rather, while trying to make ourselves useful to both, we should mobilize the particular resources available...
...favorable. In the last year Harvard witnessed the occupation of Massachusetts Hall, a long dispute over graduate student aid, an inalterable drift through unpalatable proposals to reform student disciplining methods, and declining income from the Federal government. Bok discussed none of these, but concentrated on undergraduate education. In the context of the last few years--which occupations, controversies and the Washington connection have helped define--his performance was a descent into noncontroversial platitudes while ducking political issues...
...enigmatic statements couched between ramblings of apparent irrelevancy, nothing following logically. With so little attention paid to causation, the words seem disconnected from the character who speaks them, from the setting, and from the dramatic situation. Thus the language is constantly in danger of appearing so far out of context that it zooms up to epigrammatic proportions dripping with symbolic significance. In general, this kind of pedestal profundity is undesirable: the Hub's production leaves...