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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manic overstimulation of American culture also makes excellence rarer. The great intellectual flowering of New England in the 19th century (Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, Longfellow, et al.) resulted in part from the very thinness of the New England atmosphere, an under-stimulation that made introspection a sort of cultural resource. America today is so chaotically hyped, its air so thick with kinetic information and alarming images and television and drugs, that the steady gaze required for excellence is nearly impossible. The trendier victims retreat to sealed isolation tanks to float on salt water and try to calm down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Have We Abandoned Excellence? | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

Military Victory to Salvadoran Leftists! Film Revolution of Death and eyewitness account slide show by Tom Januta last Peace Corps voluneer to leave El Sulvador 7:30 p.m. March 17 in Emerson...

Author: By Lavka Bractiman, | Title: University's Semitic Museum To Re-Open After 40 Years | 3/17/1982 | See Source »

...that open meeting, 300 people packed Emerson Hall to join the advisory committee in lastening to 30 speakers denounce the proposed lifting of the ban on loans...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: ACSR Unanimously Rejects Bank Loans To South Africa | 3/12/1982 | See Source »

...ACSR's rare open meeting, slated for Emerson 105, affords students an opportunity to air their views and to convince Harvard to stick by its less objectionable stance. We hope all students will attend, make their voices head, and prove to Harvard and the nation that some people continue to care about injustice in South Africa. If they do not, the moral retrenchment of the University and the government can only get worse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Time To be Heard | 3/4/1982 | See Source »

...open meeting of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR)--scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Emerson 105--will be the first formal opportunity for students to present their views on whether the University should lift its automatic ban on leaving money in banks making loans to South Africa...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Open Meeting on Bank Policy Tonight | 3/4/1982 | See Source »

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