Word: musts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What next? We already hear familiar calls: "Amnesty for the students involved." "The president must go." "The Corporation must go." I trust that Harvard will not be impressed by such shopworn slogans, that Faculty and students alike will decline to play the mindless roles which the impressarios of the action at University Hall have arranged for them. Great as it is, Harvard no doubt is open to improvement, and perhaps it is time to review the representation accorded different interests. But the first order of business on any constructive agenda must be the reassertion of traditional Harvard reasonableness and resistance...
...Like Barzun, the essay above argues for the old university, for the return of simplicity and commitment to learning and teaching--not to vast research projects and commitment to the "national interest" and the federal government. Like Barzun, the essay above argues that to serve society best, a university must produce and pass on knowledge that is irrelevant to society as it stands. J.K.G...
...kinds of people--highly educated professionals to run and manipulate from high positions in government and industry, and workers of increasing skill to actually produce the goods for society. Being a capitalist, Calkins believes that the rewards should be distributed largely to the former group, and that wage increases must be fought...
...poetry. The great majority of romantic works require middle or upper class milieux to treat themes of love, estrangement, longing, and reunion. Jean Vigo's last film finds them inseparable from its proletarian setting. L'Atalante's style is, in fact, so strange and yet so integrated that one must look in his earlier Zero de Conduite (1933) for its sources...
...qualms, Styron's lack of them is disturbing. But if Styron's quiet reason conquers you--I must say it conquered me--there is a reassuring solidity even in that well-dressed figure that stands between the public and the muse...