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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's endowment is controlled by the Corporation, a body chosen to manage--and finance--an educational institution. Its members are not elected for their political acumen. It is not meant to be a representative legislative assembly. The President and Fellows should not be asked to become political seers...
...Sciences division, unified by certain of the aims and procedures of the studies within it, is not meant to be a wholly integrated unit. For all the similarities between Natural Science and Behavioral Science, they remain significantly different in method and object of inquiry; and they are at different stages of development as disciplines...
...officer who had served under the late President Diem be executed for ordering troops to fire on Buddhists demonstrating in Hue last May.* Last week the progovernment head of the Buddhists' political bureau, Thich Tarn Chau, resigned, charging other monks with trying to stir up trouble. The resignation meant increasing influence for another leading monk, Thich Tri Quang, who enjoyed refuge last year in the U.S. embassy, but who is considered antigovernment and potentially neutralist...
...what the Biblical writers had to say, but also, by the nature of language, limited what they could say. Thus, the peculiar qualities of 1st century koinonia Greek, a rough-hewn language less graceful than the classical tongue of Sophocles, may have prevented St. Paul from expressing all he meant to say. Hermeneutic seeks to analyze the degree to which the Biblical writer's inner meaning was helped or hindered by the cultural instruments available...
Many of the books now pouring off the presses on the race issue hesitate, falter, flounder and peter out in mawkish sentimentality or pious preaching. This book by Charles Silberman, a FORTUNE magazine editor, marches in no-nonsense fashion to a number of hard truths that are not meant to comfort or console. It is impossible, writes Silberman, "to tell the truth about race relations without offending and angering men of both colors." Some Silberman points...