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...Students wanted the Reserve Officers Training Corps off campus--they maintained that having ROTC at Harvard meant aiding an American Army engaged in unconscionable repression in Indochina. ROTC served as a symbol of University service to the American government--a far cry from the liberal ideal of free, politically neutral inquiry to which Harvard administrators gave lip-service. Students wanted a voice in running the University. They wanted to elect part of the Harvard Corporation, and help run the departments in which they studied, starting with Afro-American Studies, the newest department and one expected to deal with political issues...
...eating, the place (the living room, kitchen or den), what else they are doing (talking, cooking, reading, watching TV), whom they are with and whether they are sitting, standing or lying down. The degree of hunger is also noted-none to mild, mild to extreme-and their mood: neutral, tense, fatigued or rushed. "By using the charts we help the patients identify what particular constellations of behavior lead to an increase in caloric intake," says Levitz. "Once those are isolated, we can suggest techniques for dealing with them." One technique is to make eating an event. "Even if a person...
...convinced themselves that words, speeches, scenes, and even whole plays were so bad that they could not have been written by Shakespeare. This was more dangerous than any of Samuel Johnson's incredibly insensitive moral judgments, because it made textual criticism the servant of literary taste instead of a neutral point of departure. The present century has made a fetish out of scholarly objectivity, with good reason; let us hope that the achievements of editors like Gwynne Evans in restoring Shakespeare is as real as it looks now, and not the kind of self-delusion we condemn in earlier ages...
...time brooding about the growing appeal of the left. He fears that a faltering French economy would lead, after election year 1976, to a popular-front government headed by Socialist Francois Mitterrand, with Communist ministers in key posts. He fears above all that West Germany may become a political "neutral" in East-West relations, which could lead to a profound change not only in France's foreign policy but also possibly in its form of government...
...little doubt that continuing news stories about Watergate developments could have an impact on the trials. A recent Columbia University study, for instance, found that a mock panel of jurors exposed to prejudicial news stories was far more likely to convict than were jurors who had read only carefully neutral articles. Social Psychologist Alice Padawer-Singer, a co-director of the study, concluded that thorough questioning of potential jurors is critical to obtaining an impartial trial. The process not only eliminates most prejudiced candidates, she reports, but "sensitizes chosen jurors to all aspects of the case." That is, the panel...