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DESPITE Dean Ford's distaste for "glib generalization," he does generalize. When he talks of students in general he is frequently convincing, but when he discusses radicals he's apparently unaware of some relevant facts. I realize that in response to his generalizations I can only offer one version of the facts (my own), but I would hope that this version would suggest the possibility of re-evaluating these liberal assumptions about radicalism...
...draft, to put those who sat-in at Mallinckrodt on probation, and to deny students seats on the CEP and Committee on Houses. Unless the Faculty has been turning down student-initiated proposals to protect students from the trauma of seeing them vetoed by the Corporation, it is glib of Galbraith to imply that the Corporation presently carries much of the responsibility for dealing with students...
...justify a permanent exclusion of the army and navy from Harvard, one must characterize them as inherently and irrevocably evil, as somehow beyond the pale of civilized society. That analysis is a little glib. Harvard was able to support the United States armed forces eagerly during World War II, and the same might well be true of a future military commitment--in the Middle East or Berlin, for example. There is nothing wrong with the proposition that the role of the military in foreign policy decisions should be curbed, but to pretend that the army is something the country...
...life with him, and I refuse to have a temporary marriage just to be able to give birth to a legitimate child. So I'm trapped. There's nowhere to turn. If I can't get an abortion legally and decently, I'll go out of my mind." The glib lay phrase "go out of my mind" by itself would not have im-pressed the psychiatrist, but in this case he was convinced that pregnancy and childbirth might be enough to precipitate severe mental illness...
...What this country does not need in the White House is a glib, loose-tongued quipster. Haven't we had enough of loose spending, loose living, loose criminals, loose courts, loose sacrificing of lives in Viet Nam, loose erosion of our freedoms and loose toleration of obvious subversion...