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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those windy words that are foisted on the public by military bureaucrats, interminably parroted by the press and kept in the vernacular long after losing any real meaning. Though the word-let alone its antonym, de-escalation-appears in neither Webster's Second nor the Oxford English dictionary, it has become synonymous with the U.S. commitment to Viet Nam. More specifically, it has become a pejorative term encompassing any American increase in the level of fighting...
...English Department, over 75 per cent of the junior faculty got their Ph.Ds at Harvard." The actual number is closer to 90 per cent...
...Harvard is no longer Mecca" (the words of a Harvard administrator). This is a matter of opinion. George S. Rousseau Instructor of English...
News editor Ray Mungo, who Thursday threatened a university-wide sit-in if Case did not allow the paper to elect new editors by next Tuesday, is out of town writing an honors English paper and was unavailable for comment...
Before the meeting, John R. Maynard, teaching fellow in English and spokesman for the Federation, said that the teaching fellows were already marshalling arguments to support their request of $400 per year increase over the present top rate for a fifth-time teaching load...