Word: muste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement's claim that the Faculty must maintain corporate silence to protect the University's freedom "is too craven a suggestion to deserve comment...
...begin with the assumption that we have not pondered these questions thoroughly. And I must begin with this assumption if only, because, as one lives a little longer, one sees how elusive good intentions are within the web of institutions. The single most difficult factor in our relations with the students at Harvard, as they come forward to private places for help, is the appearance of a new sensibility among those students which defies our traditional ideas, manner of approach and old solutions...
...word humane is to be found in a great deal of liberal talk. It seems in a bland definition that one is kind and considerate, and, of course, that is not enough. And this definition certainly does not reflect the new sensibility to which I referred. The way one must "come on" nowadays to be "with it" is a style that is more crazy than the liberal way would have...
What does one say to the individual black who must wrest his own sense of power from the white...
...individual in an institution is already within a setting that is contra dictory to his total self, and will not satisly his every characteristic wish and want. What must happen then, I imagine, is that we will all weave a crazy-quilt pattern of influence on the social, cultural, and political life of the university, which will take shape through the policies we support or oppose. The pattern is probably woven along certain lines. The recurring questions for the man who sits behind the desk are: What are those lines? What is their substance and form and how shall...