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Although Republican Representative Silvio Conte of Massachusetts may be correct when he says that "the boys act now as if they've been on tranquilizers," there is some ferment beneath the surface. In the House, liberal Democrats are attempting to make their party caucus a policymaking body. If they are successful, the liberals would substitute the caucus for the nominal leadership as the party's principal instrument of navigation. On the senior Democratic level, there is quiet talk of organizing a Senate-House leadership group that would attempt to set the party's course for both bodies...
During the academic year which has just ended, there has without doubt been marked escalation of such student dissatisfaction and ferment. The incidents of recent years (the McNamara, Dow, and Paine Hall incidents) were initiated by small groups of students with definite radical images of the world. The issues involved in these incidents produced a much wider impact insofar as they touched on matters concerned with the war. There was thus a large audience prepared to treat the presence of ROTC at Harvard as a symbol of Vietnam and militarism...
...these matters had created great ferment and new tensions within the University community. The fact remains that none of these tensions led to any fundamental breach of civility on the part of most students or to any serious break with the commonly accepted rules of University life. The strength of the Harvard community had by no means been dissipated. None of this directly caused the forcible seizure of University Hall on April 9, even though those who initiated that seizure were counting heavily on the widespread discontents...
Capitalizing on the ferment of the strike, the teaching fellows established Harvard New College, a good example of how free universities work. No tuition is charged, no teacher is paid, no grades or credits are given. Anyone who wants to teach a course merely lists it on a posted weekly schedule; if it draws students, it is a course. Classes take the form of discussion groups, usually meet once or twice a week in common rooms and student suites, and are led by teaching fellows or undergraduates themselves. Anyone can attend by signing up. Except for a few university secretaries...
...younger radicals seized upon his abstract serial period of the 1920's and upon the exceedingly astringent works of the meticulous Anton Webern astringent works of the meticulous Anton Webern (1883-1945), as their sources of inspiration. The genuinely revolutionary effect of the turn-of-the-century ferment, and the principle which has animated today's avant-garde, was that expressionism and impressionism were subsumed by a new language. Schoenberg had termed his achievement the "emancipation of dissonance." Insofar as the avant-garde moves toward the conclusion that music is the audible world itself, subject to its own capricious organization...