Word: needful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Friends signals the contemporary student filmmaker's interest in novel visual interpretation, but underscores their need to-acquire a sense of theater as well...
...sure, such freedom has often been abused, or used to shelter misdeeds. There is an urgent need to reexamine the responsibility of social scientists and to revise the relations of universities or university agencies with public policy. But it is not up to a fanaticized band of vigilantes of any persuasion to decide which activities are allowed to continue and which places must be shut down. Should one be indifferent in this instance, who knows who will be struck next? Tactics such as those of the NAC can-only delay necessary change, and whatever worthy aims they have can never...
...agree with everything up to this point will say that the chief activities of the Center could move easily from Cambridge to the Pentagon. That is a good argument. I will even help refute the tenuous reasons that the Center finds for remaining at Harvard. They say that they need the library, the faculty colleagues, the intellectual community, and the money. All of that is doubtful...
...fact as long as I am setting up some kind of a theoretical framework. I might as well begin to argue from it. The arguments that follow need a preface, however. I may have learned only two things in my four years at Harvard. The first is that an equally intelligent, rational, and valid argument can be made on all sides of any question from any and all premises. The second is that those arguments have no relationship to anything but themselves...
...transcendence. Bourgeois values are inherently material. That is why, for example, we have come to laugh at religion. Religion seems to fulfill no role in the market-place or its mirror in the mind, the arena of rational discourse. Religious ritual can be important only to those who need to have abstract, transcendent belief acted out on a concrete level. For those without the need religion is without purpose. I am Jewish, but I can not watch the Communion or the Elevation without feeling my spirit begin to escape. It is all the better, when the service is in Latin...