Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your coverage of campus disturbances has been most meticulous. However, you, in common with other magazines and other media, persist in describing campuses as intellectual communities. Do you truly believe that a concourse of post-adolescents constitutes an intellectual community? Granted, we must listen to the cacophonous yelping from the occupied college library, but we must listen because the unruly young are the voice of the times, not because they are the voice of the intellectuals. In this country, we have hazy notions about what makes an intellectual: currently the term seems to mean someone who read quite...
...Governor lectured, "you must expect things will happen." One professor in the delegation, Leon Wofsy, accused Reagan of making a political speech and undercutting the authority of college administrators by trying to fire chancellors who opposed the statehouse. At that, Reagan slammed his hand on the desk, shouting: "Listen, you are a liar! I've fought to keep politics out of the running of the university." Reagan later blamed Rector's death on "the first college administrator who said it was all right to break laws in the name of dissent...
...this calculated bombardment, the three colonies were granted a 15-day respite from all music. Then they entered cages which allowed them, by tripping electric circuits, to opt either for Mozart or Schoenberg -in both cases, compositions they had not heard before-or to listen to nothing but the fan. The results should be encouraging to Mozart buffs. The rats exposed to his music during their compulsory concerts overwhelmingly tuned in on him. The group indoctrinated by Schoenberg split almost evenly between him and Mozart-as did the control group, which was unfamiliar with both composers...
Although Edgar has lost much of the power and the energy of Hippolytus as it was written to be performed, Euripides' sympathy for human misfortune is clearly there. To see it, go to Dunster House--and listen...
...both a capable fund raiser and prominent in the nation's academic establishment. As a reflection of their own isolation from the University, the members of the Corporation will probably be less concerned that the new president share this community's sentiments or even that he be willing to listen to them. This selection policy seems to have been followed in the past, but Harvard's internal rumblings will be even more severe in the next twenty years if, after Pusey's retirement, it is faced with the outcome of a similar process conducted by the men now serving...