Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENTS at Harvard the past week at indicative of a rising national ambience of traditional American militarism and racism. Nixon's promises of peace and reconcilation proved their emptiness when Clifford Alexander was fired; troops arrived in the Chicago ghetto three hours after minor disturbances and the Paris peace talks moved into another inconclusive month. Harvard's winter of pledges to Afro and SDS came to spring putrescence with the resort to violence and denial of Black Studies...
...past several years have demonstrated that Harvard's Administrators have been most effective in co-opting students--among the most effective in the world. Whenever a substantive issue has been raised by students, the Administration as skillfully projected the image of giving in to the dissenter's demands, while in reality making no substantive changes. The history of Black student efforts to effect significant academic and social changes are a case in point. In the past year Black students have negotiated in good faith with the University about a series of Black demands. The results have been anything but acceptable...
...kidnapped. Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments of time in the same way we can look at a whole range of the Rocky Mountains. For those who can travel in time (Billy Pilgrim can and does) any particular moment can be visited. Nothing is "future"; nothing is "past." All moments exist, always have, and always will. The disastrous murders and wars of the future, for example, can't be avoided because they already exist, they've been decided. They can only be visited or not visited...
...objectives behind your demands are impossible to achieve quickly," Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, said early in the meeting. "The great issue is whether we are moving in the direction set up by the extraordinary series of events of the past week," said Bruner, who introduced the resolution ending ROTC contracts which the Faculty of Arts and Sciences passed Thursday...
...never let us past the front entry hall. He was a high school senior, a black high school senior, visiting a friend's apartment. He thought he spotted the phony white liberal-radicals in us in a second, and we could not change his mind...