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...after their first taste of the committee's handiwork. The CRR may be tottering. But if we stop educating ourselves and others as to what the CRR is really all about, if we diffuse the pressure that we have brought to bear, we will allow Harvard to institutionalize and instrument of respression every bit as real, if not as lethal, as the machinery working to crush the Panthers...
...these fires: we do not know whether the Center was a singular target, or a symbolic one, or merely a target of opportunity. What is clear is that the destruction at the Center took place in an atmosphere where physical violence, with cumulative effects, has increasingly become an accepted instrument of political and social action. The burned-out studies and charred remains of books and papers at the Center bear witness that the consequences of violence are perverse, uncontrollable, and destructive of the life of the mind...
...with the last quarter of 1969. The sharpest losses were in electrical equipment, largely because of last winter's three-month General Electric strike, and in steel, building materials and aerospace. The decline, however, was far from uniform. Companies in the food, drug, nonferrous-metal, office-equipment and instrument industries tallied sizable gains...
...least, both hands are left free. One can juggle his packages, take notes, doodle graffiti or gesticulate wildly. But if something goes wrong with the call, one can no longer seize the receiver and use it to bludgeon the instrument into oblivion. The hands-free public phone may eventually replace many of the traditional booths in big cities. Though its sturdy, simple construction should frustrate vandalism, it is obviously no cure-all for all of Ma Bell's problems; while checking out the four new phones at Pennsylvania Station recently, a traveler discovered that two were out of order...
...learning." Casals threw away the book, devised a method that freed the arms and improved left-hand fingering. He opened up the hand position, too, and found he could play four notes at once instead of three. The results made Casals famous and transformed the cello into a celebrated instrument...