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...dare not print--nay, even think--what you might exclaim when you hit your first thoroughly rotten academic streak here at Harvard and realize how much you and your loved ones paid for the two books listed above. And for your $11,000 (chuck in another grand for incidentals), you get the two volumes for only 12 months. Skip a renewal payment, and you'll be over at the Coop full time, commanding one of their space-age cash registers or arranging Kleenex sale displays...
...Some may think it odd to describe the immediate future as bright and exciting. Even a sanguine disposition might characterize the present in Charles Dickens' ambivalent words: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' Granting all this and more, granting-nay, emphasizing-that a11 times are a mixed bag, still I would emphasize the best of times. Let me put it to you directly as a colleague put it to me when I asked him what I should say in a commencement address. He replied, 'Can you think of a better...
...question of the forces, again, without sort of going into yea or nay on particular systems, I would just try to add one point that hasn't been quite spelled out so far. This whole issue of limited nuclear options, limited nuclear war, I feel is much less motivated by political considerations or doctrinal considerations. In this particular case I'm a believer that it's technology-push that's at the forefront...It's not a matter of the technical community sort of sitting on their hands, you know. They've been pushing forward and developing new systems...
Munier said it is a self-imposed by law of the society to report all disciplinary actions to the state licensing board," but he added that the society is "prepared to inform the board that we do not feel that nay restriction should be placed in their [the doctors] license...
...president's term be "reviewed" by the Yale Coproration every seven years. Whatever that meant--since no president has tenure and can be fired at any time--Brewster's first seven years just happened to be coming to a close and, to no one's surprise he was allowed--nay, encouraged-- to remain at his post. In that same speech, however, he dismissed unilaterally the prowing pressure for student representation in university decisions. Students don't want power, Brewster revealed, they really want responsiveness (whatever that meant) from the administration. And he planned to supply them with all the responsiveness...