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This avowal of objectivity did not impress the Boston Globe--a longtime supporter of the Belt--which next day editorialized against the study and called for the building of the Belt. The paper noted that both Moynihan and Nash had last spring led a group of 528 Harvard and M.I.T. faculty members calling for a restudy of the Inner Belt and other transportation plans for the metropolitan Boston area...
During the course of Saturday night it became clear that most of the demonstrators were willing to risk injury and imprisonment because they wanted to impress the Government, the world, and themselves with the depth of their conviction that the U.S. must get out of Vietnam. They had to prove that they weren't fair-weather protestors, that there were front-line casualties in the anti-war as well as in the war, and that they were not the cowards many of the less subtle pro-war advocates accuse them of being...
Linkletter attributed his success to his ability to "impress somebody--stun them." "All the things you are doing in class on paper," he added, "I did with money...
...ranked Bruins squeaked past Penn State 17-15 for their fourth straight victory of 1967. Such heart-stopping heroics have become so commonplace that Coach Prothro admits to a certain ennui: "I've gotten to where I expect so much from Gary that he doesn't impress me any more...
...insights. Today's school system does more to suppress learning than to promote it. I am an honors student, but in these past twelve years I have learned neither history, science, French, nor English. Instead, I have learned how to fake an essay, how to cram, how to impress teachers, and how to comb my hair so that it will not appear to be in violation of the administration's dress code. The result is that upon leaving school one has the feeling that he never wants to "learn" another thing as long as he lives. Only through...