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...Bill Don Moyers, "The Young Man Next to the President" [Oct. 29]. He is a symbol of a rising and brilliant generation of young people. In my long years of lecturing and teaching, I have urged parents to save their "best boys" for political vocations. Moyers will not only elicit the admiration and confidence of young people but also attract them to responsible political posts in the Government...
...dialogue in all the work of the School. Our impression is that we probably ask our students to read too much and too fast; we ask them to listen passively too much of the time, and to think not nearly enough. We suggest, therefore, a greater attempt to elicit the critical thought, discussion and reflective writing of students, and an increased experimentation with seminars, case discussion, tutorials, and similar methods...
Therefore I wasn't sure that the writers hadn't simply fabricated Duke, as a naive, generalised adolescent who would elicit sympathy for their cause and their movie. That suspicion was based on an ignorance of Harlem teenagers, but an ignorance that I share with almost everyone to whom the movie is addressed...
They prepared an eight-page policy pamphlet which spelled out a program of "unilateral initiatives" for a stable peace which would not threaten the nation's deterrent. Couched in modern language, the Tocsin proposals were designed to elicit a meaningful dialogue between the demonstrators and official Washington...
...minimum of $120,000--a sum which, turned to the proper channels, could inform and educate hundreds of thousands of people. The fact that these people would rather take a Saturday bus ride to Washington--often with their dates, and march about with signs all day, ought to elicit more pity tha scorn from all those really interested in a better solution to the current war in Vietnam. Laurence O. McKlnney...