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Peasant Revolts. The authors convincingly dispel the nostalgic notion that the nation's colleges, until this century, were amiable castles of learning where faculty and students worked harmoniously together. The early U.S. college teachers were nonprofessionals, often aspiring clergymen or wealthy aristocrats; they saw themselves "as policemen whose job was to keep recalcitrant and benighted undergraduates in line." The faculty, in turn, was intimidated by domineering presidents intent on "imposing their personal stamp on the entire college." The aim of trustees was generally to promote a special interest-a religion, a social class, a vocation or locality...
Myopic Eye. The danger of such a credo, of course, is that the camera gives a distorted view that no amount of voice narration can dispel. A few hours after the King assassination, one Manhattan station showed a film jump ing with sirens, flashing lights and wrestling figures, which made it seem as if Times Square was a battleground. Lost in the scuffle was the announcer's voice-over saying that the damage consisted of two broken windows...
...name, Jesus' was changed to fit more comfortably on alien tongues. His real name was Yehoshuah, which was translated as 'Iησοûs in Greek and lesus in Latin; the latter, in turn, be came Jesus. No one expects the campus trend to dispel the doc trinal differences between Judaism and Christianity. But as Michael Zeik, a Jew ish professor at Catholic Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y., puts it, such scholarship will help Christians and Jews "go beyond the sentimental hand-holding stage." Last week Catita Williams, 20, a pretty Episcopal coed at Georgetown, confessed...
...regard to Andrew Jamison's article about Country Joe and the Fish in last Saturday's Crimson, I feel that it is necessary to dispel an untruth arising from Mr. Jamison's irresponsible reporting. Mr. Jamison quoted Country Joe admitting his homosexuality and neglected to account for the context in which it was said. The quote in question was originally directed to me in a conversation on the night of March 8 at the Psychedelic Supermarket, a conversation which Mr. Jamison apparently misconstrued. I had asked Country Joe what his reaction was to a fundamentalist minister's charge that rock...
...Nixon victory is considered by most Republican Party observers to represent the key victory which the former Vice-President needed to dispel his loser image...