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...couple of hundred Yale students sorrowfully demonstrated to mourn the loss of popular Philosophy Associate Professor Richard Bernstein (TIME, March 12) after the philosophy department reversed itself and voted 5-2 against recommending tenure for him. "We watched a number of good teachers getting the ax," explained Yale Daily News Chairman Howard Moffett. "After a while you feel that you have to say something." Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. effectively closed the Bernstein case when he returned from a Bahamas vacation and announced that he would not overrule the tenure committee's adverse decision. But he also praised...
Malcolm's death will be debated in political terms for some time, but most Negroes must sing the blues, at least for a while. In the melee his wife, Betty, is said to have screamed, "They're killing my husband." And now she must mourn and hate...
...while a nation and a profession mourn, it is proper that in Cambridge there should be deeper grief, at the Harvard Law School a deeper silence...
...words are William Blake's but the tone and spirit are Winston Churchill's. His was an almost biblical grandeur. And at his death we mourn not his passing but our loss...
Those who mourn the fate of the Republican party--the reports of its "death" have been greatly exaggerated--may be unpleasantly surprised by Goldwater's showing in the election. Not only bigots will vote for Goldwater in November, but, many others who will be attracted by his fervent statement of an ideology which seems most expressive of American ideals...