Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another possible reason for objecting to Federal student aid is that parts of it are subject to the so-called anti-riot clauses, which stipulate that funds shall be denied to students who use unlawful tactics. I think these stipulations are inappropriate. Nevertheless it is important to note that the law does not restrict freedom of thought, dissent or speech. Moreover, discretion to deny the funds has been left with the University. So far as I know, no such denials have been made...
...poet is a poet, and Robert Lowell is just the poet to refute this pedant. In his first major effort since Prometheus Bound, Lowell has packaged many remarkable remarks as sonnets, 274 of them, to be exact. "I lean heavily to the rational," Lowell explains in a prose note, "but am devoted to surrealism...
...None of the candidates for the presidency of France chose to dwell on the fact that just a year ago Paris was a city of barricades and rebel banners, with bloody encounters between baton-wielding riot police and angry students and workers. The speeches, calm, serene, struck a tranquil note, as if the candidates were dreaming of the summer holidays scarcely two months away. Charles de Gaulle, presumably brooding in Ireland over his rebuff in the referendum, no longer cast his long shadow...
...sightless military veterans is the most dramatic proof of Scott's conclusion that the blind could be better trained to lead independent, dignified lives-if the agencies would change their ways. In rebuttal, agency spokesmen strongly contend that Scott's brush is much too broad. They correctly note that many progressive organizations for the blind, such as New York's Lighthouse, have modified their methods since the study began. Ultimately, Scott's attack on help for the blind raises larger questions than those he studied specifically. Most notably, do the same stereotyped expectations that make...
Lonely, the Prince passed an elegant note to a lovely electric tinkerbell. She brightened his head but, for all that, was entirely too real. This scared the naturally fastidious Prince, and she flew away...