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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their "incredible marriage" dissolves, then begins again as their more credible marriages and responsibilities permit. The antitheses and paradoxes persist and prod the couple until the poet, responding now to his guilt more than his love, seeks new solutions. One answer is simple; their spouses could fall in love with one another: "Why can't. Lise, why shouldn't theyfall in love?" But that never happens...

Author: By Patrick Odonnell, | Title: Berryman's Sonnets | 10/14/1967 | See Source »

...change me from being one of your sternest Negro critics to an enthusiastic reader. Having been given a chance, many Negroes have already proved by their achievements that their intelligence can be matched with that of any other group. But these were the minority who had the strength to persist against great odds. When the majority of Negroes have the chance and feel that their environment is not so overwhelmingly hostile, they will prove it too. Perhaps, in the end, 1967 will be known as the year of developing understanding rather than the year of disasters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 13, 1967 | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

students to share their quarters with females (even for a few hours) it gave de facto approval to any consequences. The demand for extended parietals is therefore ludicrous and degrading when considered in this light. If the students persist in making their demands within the parietal framework they are admitting that the university has the right to regulate the rate and number of sexual encounters...

Author: By Benito Rakower, | Title: The Shame of Faculty Silence | 10/2/1967 | See Source »

This is a question addressed as much to the future as to the past, inasmuch as all the probabilities are that the present situation will persist for some time, and will continue to demand of us responses which obviously, however, must be somewhat different from those of the immediate past. By this I mean that President Johnson will almost certainly be re-elected in 1968 and that with some modifications, the national government will remain in the hands of persons we would readily identify as the same kind of liberal who has been much in evidence for the past seven...

Author: By Daniel P. Moynihan, | Title: Myths and Demands of Liberal Politics | 9/30/1967 | See Source »

...repeat, it must be something sufficiently different to suggest that we are aware of some of our apparent shortcomings, and that the conditions in which these shortcomings first became painfully evident will persist, despite the fact that they are an embarrassment to us. I offer then, three propositions...

Author: By Daniel P. Moynihan, | Title: Myths and Demands of Liberal Politics | 9/30/1967 | See Source »

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