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...recent apodictic certitudes on contemporary industrial society has inflicted him with so shattering an intellectual crisis, that he has taken refuge in fatality and historical cycles. I fear Professor Lipset risks wholly abdicating the intellectual's endeavor to understand the world-one might add, not only to interpret the world but to change it. Such an abdication portends serious consequences for his work...
...obviously very difficult to interpret or predict the duration of given political trends and cultural styles. To forecast such developments is similar to dealing with the weather. The best prediction about tomorrow's weather is that it will be the same as today's, but whatever phase we are in, a heat wave, a cold wave, a rainy season, this, too, is sure to end and be followed by a very different type of climate. In politics, conditions which encourage the growth of right-wing or left-wing movements, or of relative stability and little political interest, also last...
When the administration did not interpret the petition as a convincing show of strength, the student organizers resorted to moderate civil disobedience. The subsequent refusal of roughly 800 students to cross picket lines to eat in their own House dining halls (when they could always eat elsewhere on interhouse) cannot be equated with unqualified support of the organizers position. But it caught our attention, and it gave us a political education...
WHEN THE GENERAL COURT finally did pass a rent control law, Cambridge was the first city to adopt it. If Cambridge finally gets to the point of actually administering the law, the Cambridge rent control administrator will be the first in the state to interpret he law's provisions...
...state has also exempted from rent control all units built after January 1, 1969, all government-owned or operated units, and owner-occupied two- and three-family dwellings. In addition to these exemptions the rent administrator will have to interpret one of the state's more ambiguous provisions which states "that a municipality accepting this act may exempt those rental units for which the rent charge exceeds limits specified by said municipality provided that no more than twenty-five per cent of the total rental units be exempted under this section." Apparently this means that the administrator may fix higher...