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Inquiries are met with empty references to the "male community," an intellectual version of the "Be home at twelve, Johnny!" that 16-year-olds get from their parents. Behind the parietal regulations, the administrative surrogate for parents, one cannot help but discern the Board of Overseers, waiting to clamp down on any infringement of the peculiar elements of the Harvard tradition that they so disproportionately asteem...
...circle of light . . ." and Rooks cuts to a grey sky with an optically created circle of light in the middle of the frame. Through focus changes, we see at the very end of the shot that the circle of light is, in fact, a sunset. Through camerawork, then, we discern both the object and the drugged interpretation of the object, giving us a rare understanding of the experience Rooks illustrates...
Revelatory Moments. Some religious thinkers believe that they discern a trend toward renewed veneration of objects as symbols of sacred value. Chicago's Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty suggests that the trend is exemplified, to some extent, by the hippies' reverence for flowers. Marty suggests that the Holy Land shrines may come to seem even more precious than ever-as symbols of spiritual meaning and of the decisive "revelatory moments" that changed the course of man's history...
LAST spring, the war in Vietnam was the subject for a genuine debate on foreign policy among most Harvard students. A substantial minority, if not the majority, sought to discern a respectable rationale for the Johnson Administration's policy of heavy military engagement in the South and sporadic bombing in the North. Many of these students were deeply troubled by the war; they often felt that American officials were not quite sincere when they spoke of "unconditional negotiations." Still, as of last June, the Vietnam war was more of an annoying problem than a genuine crisis...
Last spring, the war in Vietnam was the subject for a genuine debate on foreign policy among most Harvard students. A substantial minority, if not the majority, sought to discern a respectable rationale for the Johnson Administration's policy of heavy military engagement in the South and sporadic bombing in the North. Many of these students were deeply troubled by the war; they often felt that American officials were not quite sincere when they spoke of "unconditional negotiations." Still, as of last June, the Vietnam war was more of an annoying problem than a genuine crisis...