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...year's HRO is a very different orchesra from its predecessors. Technically it is not appreciablly better, but this year the group has all those qualities that musicians prize most highly. There is dynamic control that can achieve a real piano, and a multi-levelled sound far beyond the crude polarity of loud and soft. Gone are the days when the winds thought so much of themselves and so little of the strings that the latter were helpless before the barrage of their sound. This year the strings are playing out and assuming their proper role with well-deserved confidence...
...Like so much else in American society, Black Power is crude in conception, crass in inspiration, rugged and opportunisticv in mode, and devoid of aesthetic," Martin L. Kilson Jr., assistant professor of Government, stated in an article to be printed in the British monthly Encounter...
Mills is a peculiar blend of old and new, East and West. Founded in 1852 as a seminary-refuge for wealthy girls fleeing the crude gold-mining camp atmosphere of San Francisco, it later thrived on offering an exclusive Vassar-style education without the need for transcontinental travel. Today, Mills accents music, art, dance and drama, boasts some fine Victorian architecture, lets its girls enforce their own honor code in exams and conduct, and observes such quaint traditions as the seniors' tearful last tour of the campus by lantern light, pausing at sites they want to remember...
They live in crude, sandbagged underground bunkers where often the only light comes from an improvised candle with a rag as a wick. There are no connecting trenches; the leathernecks, some of them raw teenagers, must move at a run from bunker to bunker. Where once a crude French fortress stood, not a single building or even a tent breaks the bleak horizon. Often the only signs of life are a horde of bold rats and a few cats. "The men think they keep the rats down," grumbled one officer. "I suspect they share the garbage...
...mission officials were offended by the "rude, crude manner" in which the protest was lodged: the New York Times front-paged it before President Johnson even saw the letter. They pointed out that 26 other voluntary agencies are serving in Viet Nam without protest, and that less than a third of the I.V.S. personnel signed the letter to President Johnson. I.V.S. Director Arthur Z. Gardiner accepted Luce's resignation with regret, then made plans to head for Saigon to select replacements for the foursome from the staff in the field...