Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graced the current discussion with a coherent, well-articulated student power program. HUC president Daniel B. Magraw Jr. '68 wants to place three students each on the Committee on Houses, the Committee on Educational Policy, the Administrative Board, and the Admissions Board. But he has no idea how such large reforms might be implemented...
...time being, student power is much more an ill-defined emotion than a well-conceived idea...
...idea of the student body rising up appears fanciful. A group of students held a well-publicized meeting Sunday night to try to plan a mass defiance of parietals. Predictably, only 60 people showed up. At the suggestion that students should have more power or influence, Faculty members object that Harvard students already have great influence. The Faculty, they say, always tries to be aware of student opinion, and consider it important. The success of the Harvard Policy Committee's departmental audits "has been remarkable in terms of the number of recommendations accepted," according to HPC President Henry Norr...
...first moments Bonnie and Clyde flirts with the idea of being an art movie, but before any real damage is done, the director, the writers, and the cameraman abandon their collective self-consciousness and the worst temptation is past. What follows is an extraordinary film...
Director Penn treats with matter-of-factness a situation in which two people can be deeply in love, worry about the health of an aged mother, feel the responsibility of kinship and yet find no moral context for the idea of murder. The law for Bonnie and Clyde is merely the agent of a hostile universe. Clyde's gun, which so mesmerizes Bonnie when she first sees it, is the only potency they possess in the face of total anonymity. But it is, for a time, a very real potency, and Penn refuses to flinch at this fact. The script...