Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lesbians always given second billing? We do not even rate equality with the male homosexual when it comes to discrimination...
...Alcoholics and other present-day villains account for a small percentage of any given area. How is it that 18-year-old Stephen D. Pogue [Oct. 17] came in contact only with those who "forced" their repulsive culture down his throat...
They go on to say that the Faculty and Administration have given in to the violent threats, and that academic freedom has suffered as a result...
However Charles L. Miller, recently-appointed directod of M. I. T.'s Instrumentation Laboratory and author of the memo, last night strongly denied the claims of the radicals. "The interpretation given by the coalition is totally wrong," Miller said. "Time and our future actions will show how wrong...
...music is fashionably vilified without benefit of humane audition. The tedious and lamentable caricature of Bruckner most often encountered is of an amateurish, even childishly naive, rural organist who afflicted the world with eleven appallingly identical symphonies which are massive, repetitious, incoherent and only convulsively appealing. If he is given any credit at all, which rarely happens since people prefer summary condemnation to critical acceptance of monumental genius, it is as an influence on Mabler and certain of the later expressionist composers. But Bruckner can be dismissed as easily, and with as much in telligence, as can Beethoven or Chartres...