Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost every piece since 1920, much less 1945, is considered perverse despoliation; to many it is satanic chaos, reprehensible and calumnious. Also ugly. It is hardly surprising that the usual concert season is an essay in archaeology. The result is that the new works of 1925 are despised, while the masterpieces of 1725 and 1825 are subjected to one last definitive violation. The audience is so sated with enervating performance of the acceptable masterworks that the Beethoven Fifth might as well be so much chloroform...
...Wills and resolve are stiffening. Those who understand learning and care for it are coming together. Academic communities move slowly to defend themselves. They are almost endlessly tolerant. But the new barbarism will be repulsed. Our institutions will not be surrendered. In a sense universities live for dissent. In less anxious times they encourage and welcome it. But they are not so complacent or other-worldly that they do not know when their lives are threatened, and I am confident as they come to recognize the evil which has recently been permitted through indulgence to grow in their midst they...
...less than four Congressional committees (including the HUAC with a brand-new name) have announced that they will investigate university rebellion. In the Senate, in fact, the Internal Security Subcommittee are fighting over who will get to do the job. Meanwhile, legislation has been introduced to cut off federal funds to universities that cannot handle disorders; as long as buildings are occupied, the universities will not get the money...
SINCE AN American woman's achievement is still scored mostly in terms of her husband's and children's happiness and success, she has much less at stake than a man when she attempts a career. She is considered exceptional if she just tries. So she can afford to be less critical of herself than...
...Crimson runners were much less productive than their field counterparts Saturday as Yale dominated the track events. The Ellis captured a total of five running events, while showing signs of ending Harvard's dynasty in the distance races...