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...tone suggests that these are not commonplaces at Harvard but still zones of combat. However, any reader of the Review in this community will be less than enthralled at his delineation of the components of a liberal education. If Buck had been willing, a much more important essay could have been written from the perspective of his extensive experience in the college examining the failure of the house system to establish a meaningful community and play a significant part in the student's education or the reasons for the discrepancy between the Redbook's ideals and the actual implementation...
...essay "Discrimination and Discord in Asia" [April 9] hits the target, but being a Sindhi myself, I can say that Sindhis and Punjabis have been living no less peacefully in the past few centuries than the English and the French...
...Somehow, the point of your essay on Asian hate and discrimination completely escapes me. Despite feeble disclaimers, it smacks of the smug American, caught again in embarrassing racial strife, chortling defensively: "Ah ha! You see, those sanctimonious Asians are just as ugly, prejudiced and hateful as we Americans are!" One wonders whether the American Negro of Selma, Ala., would fully agree with your sweeping judgment that "America's problems are subject to a system of social and legal redress." At best it has been a spotty "system," hundreds of years in coming. There is little pride, and small comfort...
...Hurrah-Time Essay...
...have read TIME since my early teens. In those eleven years I have never read a better single article in TIME than your initial Essay on the U.N. In two pages, without a single wasted word, you have thrust to the heart of the U.N. crisis, laid bare the vital facts and presented an unparalleled perspective on the topic...