Word: morass
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...earth, all of us, do thank you, our astronauts, for your marvelous message, your outstanding example of heroism and humility, your perfect teamwork along with thousands of fellow Americans. You will lead today's youth out of the morass of self-pity and destruction, you will teach the new generation the world over to follow on the road of selfdiscipline, hard work and heroic achievement that is the behavior of a true American citizen...
...issue was not one of "student power," or whatever the Administration wishes to call it. Rather, it was an important issue which the faculty managed to sidetrack in a morass of bureaucratic red tape: namely, in what direction is Harvard University to move? Perhaps unconsciously, the Administration seems to be making a clear choice for its future development; the customary military, C.I.A., and government relations with the University are to remain intact, while students and their education can apparently be ignored with scarcely a twinge of guilt. In short, R.O.T.C. is felt to be somehow necessary, and the students...
...local agency governing education, poverty, or law enforcement. More important, an agency with first-hand knowledge of a city can deal more efficiently and wisely with its problems than can lockstep reform from Washington. New Haven's enlightened urban renewal, for example, has been slowed down by the legislative morass of Federal aid programs. Goodwin wants to establish minimum Federal standards to prevent abuse, but then, give money to the cities and let them work...
...Harvard is only beginning to see the complications and concerns involved in relegating study of the black experience to the same institutional forms which have resisted paying attention to the affairs of black folk for so long. If anything constructive has come out of the past week's morass it is certainly that Harvard cannot take up the black man's burden without knowing what it's all about...
...guidelines accurately reflect an Ed School consensus on the role of the University during an urban crisis. Most reformers agree with the stands on research and neutrality. If the university does not gather knowledge, who will? And an inflexible coalition with one side or the other in the urban morass would limit the School's options for no productive purpose. The School Department is not impressed by Harvard opposition...