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...calls for social change, demands for changes in foreign policy, or rhetorical attacks on the nation's leaders. Radically, to the contrary, this Class Day may mark the beginning of the admitted complacency stage of undergraduate life here at Harvard--when seniors have resigned themselves to inward reflections and outward comedy...
...Kissinger can never change. There are men and women here, I realize, who have an alternative view of the purpose of a University. These people study American foreign policy or Vietnamese culture not because they wish to plan aggressive war or destroy Vietnam, but because they seek to push outward the frontiers of knowledge and enable people everywhere to grapple a bit better with the problems which confound...
Members of last year's class heard appeals from the Class Day speakers to turn "outward once again, turn outward to find again our place in the ongoing struggle of world rejuvenation." Sydney Freedberg, Radcliffe orator, told the Class Day crowds that the Class of 1976 had been shaped by its time, frightened by the United States' seemingly endless moral and economic depression. In response to this malaise, Freedberg asked her classmates to "turn to the future...Now that we have taken a long hard look at ourselves, it is time...
Charlotte's fear, Grace Strasser-Mendana tells us, is that of looking back. The axiom, "Remember Lot's Wife, avoid the backward glance," dictated Charlotte's life until Marin disappeared. And then despite her outward ignorance of the world around her--her desire for this child like protection from life--the past is unwillingly thrust upon her as an explanation for the present complications. But for a person who has always believed that things work out fine in the end, the rising to the surface of past failures is the ultimate blow. "It wasn't the way she thought...
...they grew older the family learned all the nasty details of the world that the wall of Irish Catholicism had always been able to keep out. Divorce and bankruptcy plagued old Tom Murray's grandchildren, and they no longer looked to the Church for comfort. Staring outward at a world of Wall Street maneuvering and St. Tropez vacations and Hollywood glamor, they abandoned the neat self-centered universe their parents had created for them. But in the process they abandoned that odd combination of unbounded energy, unshakeable vanity and unquestioning faith that had held the Irish together for so many...