Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole nation, stirred to teeming excitement by his eloquence, has tingled in every polyglot branch: English and French, Irish and Italian, German and Polish, Hungarian and Japanese, black and white, Swede and Magyar, all have mouthed his name in ecstasy, flinging the wonderful sound to the blue God-given skies until the vastness of America roared." I like the idea of America roaring--America the big lion, roaring munching during its elections period. When is it that the American lion yawns...
NOVEMBER 12 -- X plans its biggest and most socially-directed demonstration. The boys and girls of X are to shop passionately in the discount basement of Filene's downtown Boston store. Then at a given moment they are to strip off their clothing and start shouting, "I can not appear without my clothing. I can not travel without a passport...
...supplement this classwork, I have told members of my class that I shall go with those who wish to attend some of the seminars given at M.I.T. on March 4, and later to discuss their background papers and the material raised in the M.I.T. seminars...
With a first-year class one-third the size of Harvard's, Yale has more than twice as many teaching fellows. While financial limitations would obviously be a problem, some thought should be given to the hiring of recent graduates to supervise group work and evaluate written work of first-year students...
...faculty might consider whether some release from the burdens of the current six-course load in the second semester should be given to students who undertake major individual research on their own. Supervision of such research would be facilitated through hiring of more teaching fellows and greater use of upperclass students...