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Gitlin is a skilled sociologist, an accomplished and witty storyteller, and a scrupulous historian. He inspires confidence in his work that is rare in Sixties chronicles; like the Arab-Israeli conflict, the period seems to exert a strange, objectivity-stripping influence on those who would describe or pass judgement upon it. Most impressively, perhaps, he is able to look back honestly on the student movement and his own involvement in it without losing his sense of humor and his compassion...
...Amendment prevented a school from silencing certain kinds of student expression, he said, it did not also require a school actively to promote such expression in plays and publications produced under its auspices. White, who had joined the majority in the Tinker case, ruled this time that educators may exert editorial control in such instances "so long as their actions are reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns." Such concerns, he noted, might extend to work that is "poorly written, inadequately researched, biased or prejudiced, vulgar or profane, or unsuitable for immature audiences...
Sullivan is said to exert his considerablepolitical power in quiet conversations behind thescenes. His campaign goes on at communitygatherings, wakes, weddings and funerals--oftenseveral in a day, the year round. WalterSullivan's declaration of campaign expendituresshows charity donations and florists' bills by faroutnumber the usual payments for bumper stickersor newspaper advertisements...
...received assurances that the Soviet Union will play no formal role at the bargaining table and that Israel can leave the conference at any time. The U.S. has promised to support Israel by joining it in walking away from the table if the Soviet Union tries to exert its influence toward a solution Israel does not like...
...History will hold us all accountable, without mercy, if we fail to exert the effort and pressure for its implementation," Sheik Sabah al-Ahmed, Kuwait's foreign minister, told the General Assembly...