Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next paragraph, however, could well have been written today: "Nations are being made and unmade. Young men are the inciters of revolution and the stirrers-up of conflict...
...half-century," the first paragraph of a ten-page chapter on The Harvard Community states, "Harvard was believed by many to occupy a unique position in the American system of higher education; and that position no longer seems as secure as it once did." The Dunlop Report pictures the University in 1900 as a magically cohesive community--a haven of the intellectual freedom which was being threatened elsewhere and a peculiarly ascetic institution whose members all proudly rejected the market mentality...
...CLOUD of financial restraint hangs over the entire report. Present Federal aid to education is now geared to developing new "centers of excellence" around the country, and the report seems to assume that the current financial squeeze on established private college is going to get worse. With its final paragraph, the report delivers the coup de grace to the notion that Harvard can be universally excellent: "The Committee recommends that the Faculty concentrate upon a limited number of areas in which it can provide top-quality leadership rather than seek to achieve a full spectrum of appointments in every department...
OUTRAGED by the disgraceful conduct of his students, a great educator fled his campus in disgust, says the lead paragraph of this week's Essay. The educator was St. Augustine, the year was A.D. 383, the place the campus of Carthage, and the one who called the fact to Essay Writer Marshall Loeb's attention is a 20th century student...
...paragraph, you tell us that Richard Nixon eschews "winner's generalities," and then in the next, proceed to quote Mr. Nixon divesting himself of precisely those generalities [March 15]. He pledges to end the war, but talks of neither escalation nor negotiation; he promises peace in the Pacific, but gives us no clue as to a solution, an idea, or one single creative thought in that direction. He faults the Administration for urban violence, but comes up with not even a productive comment, let alone a panacea...