Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gone With The Wind at 8:30 on Friday and Saturday...
...Aldrich's considered opinion--after walking around Harvard a bit, talking with a few undergraduates, dropping in on Stanley Hoffmann and classmate L. Fred Jewett '57--that the place has gone to seed. ("Rumor is hardening to conviction," his article begins, "that Harvard University is in decline.") Pathetic lies abound at Harvard's decline to the spirit of guilt and "fairness" he sees running rampant here--a spirit that tramples diversity in the name of egalitarianism. (In that respect, he laments the passing of master's choice from the House selection process...
Ford began the process by noting in a speech in September, 1974 that "throughout history nations have gone to war over natural resources"--a hint quickly perceived by the Arab states as a thinly-veiled threat to intervene in case of another boycott of substantial price increase. The same day, Kissinger sounded the same theme in tones later described to newsmen as "Doomsday language...
...River Houses have gone co-ed and in some the sex ratio has dropped down to about 2.5-to-1. This change has neutralized what had been the Quad's biggest selling point. Little has been done to date to make the Quad more attractive, such as adopting all-day shuttle bus services, although the administration is planning some renovations of North and South Houses...
...into the future, the more he seems to respect the past. It would be hard to find anyone more at home in such a variety of contemporary disciplines-economics, politics, the arts, popular culture. Yet Bell is not happy with the trends in any of them. Something precious has gone out of life, he feels. The deficiency makes people harsher, more inward, more aggrandizing. Bell yearns for a restoration of civitas: "The spontaneous willingness to obey the law, to respect the rights of others, to forgo the temptations of private enrichment at the expense of the public weal-in short...