Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concluding paragraph, the report states that the six-member faculty standing committee on Middle Eastern Studies will "take a much more active role in the oversight of the Center and its policies...
...extremely disappointed with the review of "For Colored Girls..." which appeared in The Crimson on Friday, December 13. Because it was only one paragraph long and had no byline, I initially thought it was merely an announcement of the play. I was therefore shocked to find, upon reading it, that it was actually an attempt to review the play. Not only was this "review" highly inaccurate (the play is not a "drama-musical" or a "musical production"), it was also woefully inadequate as an analysis of a serious theatrical production. There is no mention of the effective techniques employed...
...reader persevered to the twelfth paragraph of the story, he or she would learn that I am indeed leaving Harvard next year--but only for a one year visit at another school. As I told your reporter, this leave was arranged several years ago, a fact conveniently omitted from the story. The innuendo in the story's statement that I have no "present" plans to leave permanently is unwarranted...
...your printing of my letter on September 30th, one little mistake changed the entire sense and sentiment of my concluding paragraph. My penultimate sentence reads, "Should Harvard then put its weight behind the political aspirations of the Black majority, or will it remain the discreet quisling of the Boer regime?" The Crimson, by substituting "Bok" for "Boer," is replacing my focus on a hegemonic group and putting attention on an individual. This is exactly the historical gestalt my letter opposes. I do not equate Harvard University with the "Bok regime" (whatever that is). The administration is not Harvard University. Students...
...fact remains, though, that the jury did find three paragraphs of the 55-paragraph story in question were inaccurate, and published with such knowledge...