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...offer up a prayer for this now-defunct cause which showed a suicidal tendency. Knowing that its time was short, the divestment movement hastened...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Divestment Movement: R.I.P. | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...more than two hours last night, many of those same artists returned to Cambridge to reminisce about the now-defunct Poets' Theatre, which was home for an experimental drama and poetry group that performed from 1915 until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Artists Gather to Recall Heyday of Poets' Theatre | 10/29/1986 | See Source »

...group supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union--prevailed in 1976, but Savimbi's group, a Chinese proxy, failed to secure itself a role in the new government. This despite the Ford Administration's last-ditch commitment of $32 million in CIA aid to another "anti-communist" faction, the now-defunct National Front for the Liberation of Angola...

Author: By Sean L. Mckenna, | Title: Foreign Policy Fiasco | 3/13/1986 | See Source »

...written extensively on the related issue of academic freedom, strongly opposing restrictions on scholars based on their professional or political opinions. The issue first surfaced in 1971-72, Bok's first full academic year as president. At that time, a number of students--mostly members of the now-defunct Students for a Democratic Society--interrupted several of Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein's lectures. They were protesting what they called his racist views because of an article he had written which concluded that a significant measure of intelligence is inherited. When the issue came to a head that...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Free speech under fire | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...issue surfaced in Bok's first year as president. A number of students, mostly members of the now-defunct Students for a Democratic Society, interrupted many of Herrnstein's lectures in 1971-2, protesting an article he had written which concluded that a significant measure of intelligence is inherited...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Bok May Write Free Speech Letter | 4/12/1984 | See Source »

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