Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some of Harvard's most popular professors complain privately of the amount of their time this process consumes. Finley worries that the prospect of writing so many letters scares some Faculty members away from accepting Masterships. Neglecting this unpleasant chore would be tempting, Gill says, except that the letters "happen to be terribly important. In an impersonal world, you can do a lot," Finley says, and Harvard has a record to prove...
...basic reason why Columbia and B.U. won't happen at Harvard is because students here don't think that the University is important enough. They don't feel that the University has enough impact on people like themselves to make it a channel for social change. Harvard students have been so persuaded of their own intelligence that they are not awed by professors, or by almost any thing about the University. This attitude, I think, is quite different from that of almost every other university...
...overt example of this trend is The Boys in the Band, which opened off-Broadway last week. Neither patronizing nor proselytizing, it coolly takes the milieu of the homosexual for granted. It is also a funny, sad and honest play about a set of mixed-up human beings who happen to be deviates...
...that will never happen now, because Gene McCarthy gave us hope, and because the war is over. After New Hampshire (and before too) McCarthy was drawing off the strength of the anti-war movement. He was taking the money that would have gone to support resisters, taking the works and days of hands that would have built a movement...
...just this sort of undramatic report, repeated time and time again, that led Dr. Goddard to make some top-of-the-head remarks to students at the University of Minnesota last fall. "Whether or not marijuana is a more dangerous drug than alcohol is debatable-I don't happen to think...