Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even I was surprised to learn, however, that you had moved on to criminal slander. A news release sent out by the Harvard News Office on May 31 said that CRIMSON editors, "through anonymous advertisements," accused Samuel Huntington of genocide and other crimes. I found that hard to believe until I looked. There it was, an advertisement baldly saying that a professor was guilty of a crime...
...have such things to say, we say them in our editorials or in signed pieces on our features pages. We try scrupulously not to say them in our news stories. We do not say them in unsigned advertisements. We wish that the University News Office had tried as hard to check some of its facts before it issued this most recent report (as well as earlier ones accusing the CRIMSON of purposely suppressing letters from Faculty members, when in fact we never received the letters). James M. Fallows, President
...those who see in the challenge a threat; not badly enough for most people to see how serious the problem is. And so the confrontation comes. If the moment is well chosen, if the issues or demands are of sufficient resonance, if the response aggravates divisions (and it is hard to imagine a response that somehow does not), then into a local incident the following forces can get plugged: student discontent with society and the world, much of which is beyond the University's capacity to handle; student discontent with the University's education, structures, and policies; the strong desire...
...majority of people, who fall into the latter group, it has looked like a long dry rock season. With Dylan and The Band leading the industry to Nashville, and groups like The Pentangle and The Incredible String Band spawning a return to acoustical instruments, one had a hard time repressing visions of The Grand Old Opry on WMEX...
...with innocuous requests for information about Federal programs. From there it moved into more sweeping hunts for signs of plots and Commie agitators. His recently-released report on summer riots offers startling evidence of how dearly McClellan still believes in the conspiracy theory of American protest. It is not hard to imagine what kinds of plots he will be looking for in the colleges...