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Binger and the Deans said they wanted to correct this attitude, and in a letter to The Crimson in the fall of 1963, Binger wrote, "what is important and valuable in a sexual relationship is not merely the excitement and pleasure but also its uniqueness and meaningfulness. This will not be achieved when it is indulged in as a show of athletic prowess in the male or as reassurance for his own faltering masculinity; nor in the female as a conventional compliance with what others are doing or again to prove her own attractiveness and let her little world know...
Though Purvis' attitude reflects only dismay at the tightening of rules, other students were more open about what was going on in bedrooms at the time. One student wrote a letter to the Crimson, saying "Well, it is true that men and women students like to be together and enjoy each other's company in a quiet and private place; it is also true that most Harvard and Radcliffe students, when they leave their colleges are no longer virgins; and it is finally true that many of the students have their first complete sexual experiences during Harvard's parietal hours...
...most of the week, contradictory signals emanated from a country whose secretive rulers prize political stability above all else. Perhaps the most curious sign involved the army. On Monday seven retired generals, including former Defense Minister Zhang Aiping, signed a letter to the party leadership demanding that the P.L.A. not be used to quell the uprising. "The army must absolutely not shoot the people," it read. Two days later, the military's Liberation Army Daily quoted a letter from the P.L.A. general staff (also dated Monday) urging troops to study carefully a speech by Li Peng denouncing the uprising...
Bosket has now filed a suit against his surrogate mother, charging cruel and unusual punishment at Woodbourne. He is also angry because the authorities have ignored an eight-page handwritten letter in which Bosket volunteered himself for study as a way to help prevent future Boskets. "It's all just theater to Willie, and we try not to give him a stage," says Thomas Coughlin III, New York's commissioner of correctional services...
Pitkin said that in addition to the three drawings, he sent Harvard a letter containing other reccomendations for the site. At a meeting last week, the Neighborhood Association suggested that any building on the lot be set back on Harvard St. and provide a vehicular entrance on Mass...