Word: felted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late September, Brown referred it to the CEP again on October 9. The CEP approved it for a second time, with Dean Ford calling the course "a valuable experiment." The CEP had certain reservations about the course's "encouraging certain political points of view" but felt Harvard students could handle...
...have had a deep, ingrained horror of violence. When violence occurs, it's recognized in their culture as a breakdown. Certain people in our community no doubt do feel like that, but too many don't think that carrying a gun is a sign of inferiority. The Chinese have felt very deeply that people who will resort to violence on ordinary civil and other occasions are out. That's a tremendous protection for a counttry; and it is one, we may hope, they still have. When you think of the number of people, the amount of moving about...
ALMOST unanimously the graduate students described their situation as "demeaning," and singled out examinations and grades as especially demeaning. . . . Giving grades, the students felt, allowed the teacher to avoid serious engagement with the student's ideas, excused him from making extended qualitative comments on the work done, and thus expressed his unwillingness to bother about the student as a person. As one student expressed it, "What we want is criticism, not grades. Talk...
...Wilson-Nixon meeting, he sniped: "Of course, all of us will be kept fully in the dark about the discussions that are held. Both President Nixon and Mr. Wilson have expensively hired press secretaries whose job is to disguise the truth and to avoid straight questions." In sum, Dimbleby felt that Nixon had drawn "not as big a crowd as Kennedy would have and not as hostile a crowd probably as L.B.J." What the British had witnessed, he concluded, was "another stage in the so-called de-monsterization of Nixon - that's what the American press calls it -discovering...
...LEAST there were advantages in that clique. It revolved around Mayer--he had charisma, "talent, flash, élan that brought people in, and a controlled theatrical madness." Scott Kirkpatrick, who built for the summer company for two seasons and produced Erie said they felt they were doing something good that wasn't in existence anyplace else around here. "We thought we did a good job, and that we could affect people...