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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William Fetcher '76 analyzes the question of image in concrete terms by placing it in a political context. He says that it was probably not accidental that pictures of blacks playing cards in the Union were published in national magazines, while pictures of whites engaged in similar activities were not. "It had a tremendous effect on people. I'm sure the alumni started wondering, what kind of black students are going up there? If they showed white students' beer parties on Saturday night, I'm sure they'd be worried about the calibre of white students here. But they never...
...allegiance is not as powerful as Glazer and Moynihan make it out to be. Richard Pipes, professor of History, discusses nationality problems in the Soviet Union, and Martin Kilson, professor of Government, presents a case study of black political attitudes and activity during the late '60's in the context of increasing black ethnicity...
Ebert admits that his administration has been concerned more with issues of public health and the societal role of the school than with academic matters. This is because Ebert views himself, from the context of a detailed historical analysis of the role of the Med School, as the pilot of a school in the midst of a prickly "transition period...
Huston still defended these practices in the context of the tumultuous 1960s. What had worried him was "revolutionary violence . . . the lives and property of people who were being subjected to violence, the 20,000 bombings that occurred in one year and the 39 police officers who were killed." The White House was also worried that the violence might be partially directed or funded from abroad. Yet the FBI, in the opinion of the President's men, did not seem to be making a sufficient effort to establish the connection...
Bentley claims that his show is "theater of fact." True, he has invented not a spoken line of it, but facts are mute. They are animated by climates of opinion, and that social context is missing. Bentley simply relies on popular present attitudes to validate lofty moral judgments on the past. At the time the hearings were held, wartime amity with the Soviet Union had been crushed by the descent of the Iron Curtain, and there was a not unnatural suspicion, supported by proof which exists to this very moment, that the Russians were out to Communize the world...