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When Peter H. York '74 awoke early Sunday morning--at just after 2 a.m. in fact--his Lowell House room was an inferno. Searing flames burst from a closet door, singeing his hair, and when he put his left hand on the wall in making an escape, large blisters sprang from his palm. During York's panicky exit through a first floor window in Lowell's O-entry, he further cut his left hand and right forearm...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Fire Rousts Lowell | 5/3/1974 | See Source »

HARDSHIP ALONE does not breed peasant revolution. A whole set of factors, some as yet dimly understood, prompted Vietnamese peasants to leave their villages and enter the inferno of revolutionary war. Long has promised to examine this question in another study; judging from Before the Revolution, his next book should be a useful and important contribution to a growing debate among students of Vietnamese history...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: They Left Their Plows Behind Them | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...nose at a distance, and to keep you off his back in turn. Better ten people with an acre each than ten people sharing ten acres. I would not give you cave-dwelling slaves in New York 5? for the best cluster house ever built. It is a developmental inferno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 29, 1973 | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

Despite battling in the inferno, the Vietnamese have not lost their humanity. The violence which for decades they have been forced to contend with the resort to has not obscured their goals or tarnished their ultimate vision. Vietnam will be free, and Vietnam has taught America both the price and the value of freedom

Author: By Dainel Swanson, | Title: Harvard Was Quiet, But Vietnam Will Win | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

Despite battling in the inferno, the Vietnamese have not lost their humanity. The violence which for decades they have been forced to contend with and resort to has not obscured their goals or tarnished their ultimate vision. Vietnam will be free, and Vietnam has taught America both the price and the value of freedom

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Harvard Was Quiet, But Vietnam Will Win | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

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