Word: inners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to abolishing course credit for ROTC, the university readily agreed to establish a program of Afro-American studies when Negro students insisted on it. It is, moreover, in keeping with the Harvard way that basic decisions are not, as at less democratic universities, made only by a small inner circle of deans. Proposals for major changes are discussed widely among faculty members?and students too?before they are acted on. There may be tension at Harvard, but there is communication as well...
Given such a massive body of work, a major problem in staging a retrospective was to find a museum that could adequately display it. Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum turns out to be just the place, with its soaring inner space and gigantic spiral ramp designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. A few large, most strongly vertical works look slightly lopsided because of the ramp's slope. But by and large the Guggenheim's arbitrary architecture admirably enhances the drama of Smith's career...
...dean, Bender instituted the Allston Burr Senior Tutors program, promoted the tutorial system in the Houses, and expanded the scholarship program for students in inner urban areas...
...scene: the annual production of (topical) satire by the Inner Circle, New York City's political writers. The scene stealer: New York's Mayor John Lindsay, candidate for reelection, singing a ditty he composed to the tune of Where Have All the Flowers Gone...
...Inner-City Programs. Archbishop Terence J. Cooke has been an all but automatic choice since he succeeded the late Francis Cardinal Spellman as head of the New York archdiocese last March. Similarly, Archbishop John J. Carberry of St. Louis was considered in line for promotion to the college as soon as he took over that see last year; his two immediate predecessors were cardinals. Both Cooke and Carberry are cautious on theological matters-both have firmly defended the Pope's birth-control encyclical-but are advocates of aggressive inner-city programs in their racially explosive archdioceses...