Word: p
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surface rarely attributes quotes to speakers and strings together endless quoted phrases lifted out of their context. He calls students "irrational" (p. 12) without ever explaining or implying why he thinks they are unable to reason. And finally he asserts that drugs have superceded civil rights, which shouldn't be believed, and that they are more popular than sex, which can't be believed...
...cards and reclassification notices on the steps of the South Boston Courthouse. Well publicized in advance by the students, the happening attracted a large gallery, including several FBI agents. For their draft resistance, three of the youths were sent to prison for up to three years; the fourth, David P. O'Brien, a 19-year-old Boston University freshman, was sentenced under the Federal Youth Correction Act to a stiff term of up to six years...
...years ago Leahy came here as assistant director of laboratories of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, and soon became director, a post he still holds. For the last two years he has also worked on Harvard's connections with the Federal government in the office of Charles P. Whitlock, President Pusey's assistant for Civic and Governmental Relations...
...students have gone home. The Daily Spectator stopped publication a couple of weeks ago with the exception of occasional broadsides on major incidents. A few do course work; but most took automatic "p's" for passing. Most wait. Politics has replaced academics as the institutionalized rationale for living at Columbia this month. The huge apathetic majority has been forced to take a side. But politics does not give a student much to do unless he sit-ins or counter-demonstrates. As a result there is constant political potential for a large demonstration...
...trying to break the spell of the famed passages ("A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou" became "one mancel loaf, a haunch of mutton and a gourd of wine set for us two alone"), but also for making some scholarly blunders of his own. L. P. Elwell-Sutton, an Orientalist at Edinburgh University, maintained that the manuscript used by Ali-Shah and Graves was "a clumsy forgery." Replied Graves: "Howling nonsense." The quarrel may never be resolved, since Graves's critics have not been permitted to examine Ali-Shah's manuscript. Thus the lay reader...