Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want things too fast, too much (this being a product of our childhood, of course, since our parents grew up in the depression, then made it, then wanted to give us all the advantages, etc.) But, alas again, we must realize that the world out there is imperfect (past progressive), and we should not ask for so much so fast. And then (this is our dark side), we are enamored of violence. It has been said that during the occupation of University Hall, several students, seething wit vioence, violently escorted (manhandled, etc.) several deans out of their offices. (The students...
...horror of the question: "Who are you?" That came this year to our class harder than to any other class. And few of us believe in ourselves enough any more to refuse to answer it. If anything made us different these four years it was our lack of a past--not a generation without a future, as George Wald said, but a generation without a past. We should not be told that all this had happened before, that we should learn from history. Even if these things had happened before, they had never happened to us before...
...hated them so much; we were so eager to answer their questions. And soon, our world was gone. Some of us became Marxists, and some of us became capitalists; we talked about our past, as I am talking now, as though it were the present. We gave ourselves up, and we are left with a feeling of being lost. Perhaps every class feels that way, perhaps every person feels that when when he is 22. That does not make it any less important to us; it is the first time we have felt that way, and it is impossible...
...whole, the quality of elocution in this production is better than what the Festival has usually offered in the past. The main burden falls of course on the title role, taken here by Len Cariou, a newcomer to the Festival. Given the concept Kahn has foisted on him, he acquits himself surprisingly well. He is obviously a well-trained classical actor, and his performance at times suggests a young Alec Guinness. The Festival has made a lucky catch...
...function of a university," Harvard President James B. Conant observed at the opening of the Houghton, "is to act as a guardian of the cultural riches of the past. Our libraries and museums serve only in part our own students and our staff. To a large measure they are of benefit to the much greater world of scholars.... We are the servants of a community that extends far beyond these academic walls--our responsibilities transcend both the immediate aims of this institution of learning and the days in which we live...