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...letter writing effort was joined by a panel of speakers who addressed the rally at Widener. The first to speak was Mariam Ozernoy, a Russian emigree, who spoke on herrecent release from the Soviet Union. Her speechwas followed by a talk on Christian dissent in theUSSR by Nikita Moravsky, former attache to theAmerican Embassy in Moscow...
...dissent came from the most renowned proponents of Harvard's traditional, sweeping approach to American history, said department members, several of whom spoke on condition that they not be identified...
Arresting the protesters would have allowed the dinner to go on. More important, it also would have forced Harvard to admit that, yes, there is dissent on this venerable, ivy-covered campus--something the University had been loathe to do in all previous 350th anniversary press releases...
...been one of disdain. The shantytown in the Yard last semester was looked upon as an odd extracurricular, and last spring's campaign for the Board of Overseers by three self-nominated candidates advocating divestment was viewed as an abomination of tradition. But pretending that there is no dissent and just hoping the protests will go away is not only poor strategy, it is precisely the sort of attitude that makes people so dissatisfied with Harvard in the first place...
...belief in values of truth, integrity and individual liberty in the United States. Both economic and spiritual recovery from the Great Depression was almost complete. The American outcry for individual liberty was not, however, derived from the shared jubilation at the country's rebirth, but rather from voices of dissent which maintained that Roosevelt's new America stood in direct contrast to the Federalist fathers' notion of individualism...