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...stresses the need for renewed moral vigor, basic virtue and profound verities, along with the Inverted Uplift Speech, which stresses the lack of moral vigor, basic virtue and profound verities. Then there is the Aching Anywhere Appeal ("Anywhere needs your help; the Anywhereians are starving; their country is in ferment; world leadership depends on saving Anywhere...
Less than half the degree candidates showed for a streamlined Class Day. It lasted barely an hour. Robert F. Wagner Jr. '65 delivered a brief W. Jamesian oration in which he attributed collegiate ferment to a dearth of "adventure" on American campuses. Wegner lauded protest and demonstration as an impetus to wider reflection about "vital issues" and as a healthy expression of student dissatisfaction...
More Overtime. The healthy U.S. economy is itself responsible for much of the ferment. Employment is at a record 70 million, and the Labor Department reported last week that unemployment in March fell to 4.7%, the lowest in seven years. Union members have worked full time and even overtime for the past three years; most have money in the bank, many are weary, and some would actually welcome a strike-imposed vacation...
...Revolution has added ferment and complexity to the lives of most Negroes, it has had the opposite effect-on whites. It is fashionable to talk about the "many Souths," and perhaps they exist. But in Alabama I met only two types of white men: those who mix reason with prejudice and those who make no pretense of rationality...
...called industrial society or underdeveloped society or international affairs. Conversely, to serve the particular interests of each student, they must permit a great deal of individual choice in reading assignments and research. This tension between coherence and liberality has produced some interesting experiments and a certain amount of creative ferment. Junior tutorial has not, however, given most students what they really need: a chance to gather around a single, well-defined topic all the methods picked up in sophomore tutorial and all the factual material learned in regular course work...