Word: giving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beautiful, wonderful, wonderful job." he said. "Here we are scratching for pennies trying to give Americans a decent place to live in, and we're spend a billion dollars a week in Vietnam. That's what the protest is involved with. Not just students, but everybody's upset...
Observers at other private colleges and universities might well read this letter, which to me is a gloomy one, and say that they would give a great deal to have problems such as this. After all, we still do have a strategic reserve when many similar institutions, and other faculties at Harvard, do not. On the other hand, it does seem clear to me that the legitimate pressures that increase our expenses seem stronger than our ability to produce offsetting income, and that this condition will persist at least for the next few years. If this is correct, then...
...late Saturday afternoon. A co-hitcher named Adam joined me on the entrance ramp to the Mass. Turnpike. He asked me the score of the just ended Harvard-Princeton football game, and I told him I didn't know. Adam was hip, though; he hastily added, "Not that I give a shit...
...told me to get in the car. "Are you gonna beat the shit out of me or give me a ride?" I asked. His girlfriend, looking embarrassed. told me not to worry, and I got in for the last leg of my trip. Kevin, the driver, is in the Army and has been ordered to serve in Washington this weekend...
...person, namely me, to carry the weight of a protest staged by a white organization which presumes to speak for black workers. In your next issue, why don't you run a photo of the 70-odd whites at Tuesday's conference who carry bonfire SDS membership cards, and give a more accurate portrayal of who was there and who was running the show...