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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mistake with Vietnam. Because the U.S. has refused to recognise Vietnam, it has forfeited any ability to ameliorate events in Southeast Asia. Again, American policy makers have held that the U.S. should establish diplomatic relations with Vietnam only after Vietnam meets all the preconditions normally worked out in the context of diplomatic relations...
These deficiencies in Harvard's attitude toward arts curriculum and faculty are only one part of a larger indictment that the performing arts at Harvard are bad. Questions of good and bad are ugly and difficult in almost any context, but the personal nature of art makes such questions even messier. Yet it would not be breaking any code of objectivity to write that the arts at Harvard were bad; President Bok admitted as much when he authorized a committee on the arts six years ago to suggest improvements for Harvard's arts programs...
...agrarian and always venerated what he saw as the stability and simplicity of the Old South. He taught at a number of colleges, mainly the University of Minnesota, and helped found the New Criticism, which stressed the study of the poem or story itself, divorced from its historical context. He also continued to write poems, of which his Ode to the Confederate Dead is the most personal and popular. The main theme of much of his highly intellectual, harsh and often violent poetry, he later wrote, was "man suffering from unbelief," and in 1950 he joined the Roman Catholic Church...
...this article I am also quoted as alluding to a lack of leadership in the department. This statement was also taken out of context. What I in fact said was that the leadership of the department has not taken it upon itself to press the University for the fulfillment of these previously mentioned commitments...
...Communist Poland, made clear his urgent desire to eliminate priestly activism based upon Marxist dogma. The Pope emphatically rejected liberation theology, without ever using that phrase. Repeatedly emphasizing the value of each person before God, and the need for spiritual freedom, he used the term liberation in a Christianized context. To the Pope, "atheistic humanism" holds out to mankind only a half liberation, because it bases everything on economic determinism ignores spiritual dynamics. The result, he said, is that man's very being is "reduced in the worst way." Today, he said, "human val ues are trampled...