Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...let her works tell her praises...
...Negro militancy as a result. At first, Perkins' administration yielded to many of their demands. It gave blacks a house for an Afro-American Center, set up a private dormitory for Negro coeds, and planned a black studies curriculum. A Quaker and champion of liberal causes, Perkins even let two blacks fly to New York in the university's plane to buy bongo drums for last year's Malcolm X Day ceremonies. But he rejected the major Negro demand: that the program of Afro-American studies be made into a separate college entirely run by blacks...
...regime and speaks of both with dispassion and sympathy. He is scarcely a revolutionary. No man more fervently desires the demise of Communism, but he wants the death to come peacefully. He contemptuously cites Gomulka's excuse for violence: "With wolves, one must howl." Writes Djilas: "Let him do his howling. I shall not, though I have snarled and snapped with my teeth in my time. Such behavior achieves less than expected; in any case, there is no end to snapping and snarling." Djilas may be the first of his kind: a Communist convert to democracy who remains...
...vigorous pamphlet by his father Increase put a formal stop to the dreadful affair. A general pardon was declared. The trials did not continue. Dozens of presumed witches were let go or allowed to escape...
Harvard officials yesterday denied reports that the University has agreed to let the Boston Patriots play in Harvard Stadium...