Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week to confront three of the crucial questions that have troubled the nation in the second half of this decade. Their solutions evaded Nixon's predecessor, and Nixon himself has yet to show that he has new answers. But he is now involved and committed, a partisan no longer above the battle...
There is no longer any doubt that a large percentage of the nation's students will remain restless and questing for an indefinite period. Many will follow the advice of Barbara Ward, the English economic journalist, who exhorted University of Pennsylvania students: "Please stay angry. I implore you to determine that you are going to give them [public officials] no peace. I say, go out, bite them...
...year later, still desulting about, he fell under the spell of Perry Miller. For a decade that greatest of Americanists and roistering misfit in this town of shut-ins goaded, cajoled, cursed Heimert up the academic ladder, until, just as he reached the top--with Miller, now dead, no longer there to guide him--the same confusions which propelled the middle-class, occasionally Jewish boy to Columbia made him lose his balance and think about climbing down. "When the department voted me tenure," he says, "I went into a four week down trip. I thought, my god, they've tole...
...intentions, its preferences on others who may not share them. If it should be passive and let events take their course, it will implicitly choose a certain kind of environment--one, perhaps, in which all Cambridge slowly becomes like Harvard and M.I.T. until we find that we are no longer an urban university, but one which has allowed there to grow up around itself a kind of inner-city suburb with a single life style, carried on by professors, students, psychiatrists and the executives of electronics and consulting firms. Perhaps that is the environment we wish to have...
...Truman's visit, setting aside a special suite for the 84-year-old ex-President. Reports that the club had also laid in a supply of "Old Stewart" bourbon (distilled in Bolivar, Mo.) were denied, as a spokesman explained that Truman, because of his advanced age, is no longer able to indulge...