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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whimsy is asthenic fantasy, a fragile, elusive quality difficult to render but easy to shatter into sentimentality. It is a commodity perhaps best left to books and greeting cards. Enlarged and expanded to fill a screen, it can become an overbearing thing, as two new movies pointedly prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Doily and the Dumpling | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...Titans, those symbols of chaos -which Berle assumes is the one thing power can't abide. The plot thickens as Zeus gives birth to the world's first intellectual, Pallas Athena, who says of her father, "I never thought he had any brains," and then proceeds to fill that lack by showing him to what intelligent uses power can be put. Zeus also symbolically sires Apollo, the first creative artist, because "power has always sought the assistance of the arts" to answer the perennial question of how men should live. But power's prime function...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Concert of Empires | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...difficult and sensitive position to fill, and I'm extremely pleased we got him to fill it." Ford said last night...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Columnists Say Harvard Has Given In To Terror | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

There was one central point that all three of us tried to make during that interview. Since Hyland's report creatively omits any reference to that central point, let me use this space to fill in the gap. In brief, there isn't any Center line of policy, nor any Center brand of polities. According to your taste, you can try to pin a label on the Center by emphasizing the names of Bowie or MacEwen or Hoffman or Bowles or Huntington. All have taken shelter and sustenance from the Center. But if you tried to pin a common label...

Author: By Center FOR International affairs, | Title: Vernon Defines the Role of the CFIA | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...University and should more properly be dealt with in due course by a University-wide body with appropriate provision for student representation. We understand that other committees concerned with the governance of the University are presently considering the establishment of such a body. We believe that it would fill an important need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fainsod Report: Part II The Faculty and the Students | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

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