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...about moral schizophrenia shield their speakers. The phrase "tragic war in Vietnam," has become a near proverb among Liberals. But "tragic" has no definite meaning; it doesn't refer to Aristotle's rules of drama, or Elizabethan concepts of the rise and fall of statesmen, or anything like that. Insofar as it means anything at all, it means "sad." Accordingly, the phrase is given out in subdued undertones, as though a dead man with a brokenhearted widow were weeping in the next room. It is used as if in reference to an accident. And accidents, of course, cannot be avoided...
...going to meet my responsibility to protect the national security of the United States insofar as our secrets are concerned." If negotiations with the North Vietnamese had not been protected by secrecy, he said bluntly, "You men would still be in Hanoi rather than Washington today." Then, assailing Daniel Ellsberg (though not by name) for releasing the secret Pentagon history of the Viet Nam War, he added...
...recruiting process does the job of the student end and that of the Admissions office begin? The statement that the decline in black applications can be attributed to "less recruiting of perspective applicants by Harvard blacks" seems to me to imply that black undergraduates must surpass the norm insofar as recruiting obligations are concerned...
...million in "grants and endowments" held by Harvard. The figure involves no grants. It is all endowment. Also, Harvard did not "vow" to withdraw this from the BCH. Harvard did indicate that if forced out of the Hospital the support of the income from that endowment would be lost insofar as the BCH was concerned...
There are more blacks admitted to Harvard than before, more hired on faculty and in administration, and black leverage in curriculum, insofar as the Afro-American Studies Department represents such leverage. But these gains have not been without their hitches. The authoritarian dimensions of black separatism at Harvard has produced widespread academic malaise among Negro students. The source of this malaise is the deep-seated emotional ambivalence and instability that black solidarity behavior creates among Negro students in regard to their place at Harvard. To whom do they owe basic loyalty? The demands of black-solidarity forces, or the academic...