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...nearly 50 years Moses ruled, protected by his reputation. unfettered by restraints. Perhaps he cannot be faulted for his decisions to make New York a city for the automobile, incorrect though that decision may now appear. Moses' days of high-way-building were also days of cheap gasoline and ever-bigger cars; few voices spoke forcefully for the future of mass transportation. The tragedy was that Moses was allowed to rule alone, beyond the view of a public that might not have liked the truth about...
...article was based on the incorrect assumption that the Harvard Band had been warned by the Council of Ivy Group Presidents that halftime shows would be censored by the administration were they not appropriately censored by the Band itself. The Band has not been warned; and, contrary to Mr. Kolodziej's claims, I have had neither the opportunity nor the inclination to "dismiss" any warnings the council may have issued...
...quote attributed to me in you April 18th article on a debate of Black leftists was incorrect. The statement in reference to the Klan. "We must smash the hell out of them," was said by Ed Jarvis of the Sparticus League, not me as you article stated...
That these undergraduates, after a year of work within Harvard's institutional maze, still believe that the student body will have a "decisive influence" on anything is remarkable, not to mention incorrect. Historically, the University administration has ignored student opinion on issues like divestiture of South Africa-related investments or guidelines for accepting alumni gifts Students did once support a referendum demanding provision of toilet paper to the River Houses, and the University later complied. But administrators emphatically insisted, it wasn't the student survey but more direct tactics--the theft of massive quantities of toilet paper from Harvard buildings...
When you get to that sort of error, you are nearing a psychological abyss. It was Freud who first removed the element of accident from language with his explanation of "slips," but lately others have extended his theories. Psychiatrist Richard Yazmajian, for example, suggests that there are some incorrect words that exist in associative chains with the correct ones for which they are substituted, implying a kind of "dream pair" of elements in the speaker's psyche. The nun who poured tea for the Irish bishop and asked, "How many lords, my lump?" might therefore have been asking...