Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aside here is that Napalm is an effective weapon that is used many times, to solve a particular situation. It is used often when Vietcong have U.S. troops pinned down (usually in ambush). We have no way of knocking out these bunkers without sustaining or risking sustaining heavy losses. Artillery cannot penetrate the earthen cover to the necessary depth and neither many times can bombs. Napalm can put "Charlie" out of action not by burning but by suffocation as the Napalm burning on the surface uses up available Oxygen in the tunnels...
...Executive Committee attracts a particular type of person. Leslie A. Levis '67, one of the club's first Radcliffe members (the club merged with the Radcliffe Republican Club in the spring of 1966) said last year, "Executive Committee members all look like Midwesterners." A Jewish committee member from New York seems more like the Wyoming rancher Republican than other New Yorkers. And the president of the club, Jay B. Stephens '68, is an earnest Iowan...
While contributing to studies of interest to the Institute, the associates will work with the faculty and undergraduate groups who are concerned with their particular fields. John G. Wofford, Associate Director of the Institute, emphasized the "ad hoc" nature of the plan and commented that "no single decision as to their function has been made yet. Their affiliation to the Institute will be of a very flexible nature," he said. Gardner added that the initiative for the experts to appear before students will have to come from the undergraduates themselves...
...majority of Harvard students simply because they have been at Harvard longer than others and have had more time to be socialized by anti-war sentiment rampant on campus. Still, it doesn't sound unreasonable to suggest that vulnerability has something to do with one's political opinions. One particular phenomenon which seems to bear this out is that students have become markedly more radical since they learned that graduate school was not going to be an automatic deferment...
Chalmers agreed in an interview Wednesday, but added, "While there are very few programs which are impossible to arrange now, some are very inconvenient. Many students aren't aware of any way to set up regional studies or a study of a particular period--like 18th Century Europe...