Word: excerpting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Following is an excerpt from onathan Kozol's controversial speech delivered last Sunday at the Ford Hall Forum. Kozol, a Harvard graduate currently teaching in Newton, was fired from the Boston School System in 1965 for reading a poem by Langston Hughes to his largely Negro class. His book, Death at an Early Age, was published recently...
...annual report on the Harvard Law School to University President Nathan Pusey has just been published. An excerpt: "More and more law school faculties have come to be looked on as quarries from which persons may be chosen for important posts in public service. On numerous occasions they have left the Law School faculty, often on very short notice. But the process is difficult. The disruption is considerable, and one may be pardoned for wishing at times that his faculty was somewhat less attractive to the practical world...
...Harvard Orientalist and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer writes in a perceptive analysis of the war, a settlement of any sort may be out of reach "until one side or the other recognizes that it faces eventual defeat." In a Look magazine excerpt from his forthcoming book, Beyond Viet Nam, Reischauer reasons that with negotiations apparently out of the question for the time being, the U.S. has three choices, "all of them unsatisfactory...
...almost insurmountable problem to condense and excerpt a tightly structured novel down to a play. The philosophic discussions and illuminating encounters of Crime and Punishment must play out against a double suspense: the detective Porfiry closing in on Raskolnikov, and Raskolnikov's mind closing in on itself. At the Loeb there is no strength to either line of tension. The scenes are excerpted with little attempt to crowd in exposition, which makes them good theater, but it also destroys the time sense of the play. You just can't be sure when things are happening, hours or days apart...