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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-conscious and experiential to be analytic and he doesn't seem to sense the depth of the things he writes about. To say "A growing disenchantment with this country among SoSers as well as Young Americans for Freedom, among a handful of Senators and a small number of administrators tells us that someday the present system is not going to make it anymore" is to say everything and nothing. What does it mean for a system "not to make it" and what are all these people alienated from? The important metaphor are not Rosen's but those...
...Business School is considering a proposal to lift the quota on the number of foreign students admitted to the MBA program. This would do away with the current limit of ten per cent, permitting an estimated 120 foreign students to enter next year's class of 750 students...
Many of the letters are expectedly heavy with vitriol. Some show an irrational readiness to blame the messenger for the message and hold the news media responsible for the social ills that they report. A significant number reflect a disturbing increase in overt antiSemitism. NBC said last week that it had received more than 500 anti-Jewish letters; the New York Times reported a dozen such letters, more than it has received on any issue since the Arab-Israeli...
...around to see what was really there, I had to admit that airplanes were dull: businessmen stewardesses, students, all sealed in a cylinder, impatient to be rid of one another. The flights were so fast there wasn't the time to meet a girl and write down her telephone number between cities...
...just uses her powers for good," snorted Number One. Their sarcasm proclaimed disbelief, but there was a tone of defensiveness in their voices. Neither of them seemed to take lightly the girl or even the possibility that she was a witch...