Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COLLECTED ESSAYS, by Graham Greene. The novelist repeatedly drives home the same obsessive point: "Human nature is not black and white but black and grey...
...moving but cautionary M-day speech on the New Haven green, Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr.?who joined Mayor Richard Lee in offering a five-point disengagement plan two weeks ago?warned of another danger to America: "Let us admit that the retreat of our power in the face of a persistent enemy might invite other aggressors to doubt?and doubting, to test ?our will to help keep the peace, in Europe, in the Middle East, in Asia. Let us say simply and proudly that our ability to keep the peace also requires above all that America once...
From Cornell's point of view. Harkness is the best thing ever to grace its athletic program. In 1959, the Big Red suffered through a 0-10 season, losing to Harvard 18-0 and 13-0. The same thing happened the next year, and Cornell was the laughingstock of the League. They lost 26 straight Ivy games. They had only two Canadians on the squad...
...From the point of view of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, one of the most important effects of the draft has been to reduce the proportion of the class entering graduate schools of arts and sciences from 28 per cent in 1967 to 12 per cent in 1969. In the long run more men may eventually be able to go to graduate school of arts and sciences but for the time being this area has been one of the most profoundly affected by the draft. I doubt, however, that graduate and professional schools, generally, are changing their admissions policy...
...article in Tuesday's CRIMSON about the effects of the draft on career planning take so more optimistic point of view of the overall situation than I do. Four hundred eighty-eight men or 43 per cent of the Class of 1968 reported to us that they felt that their immediate post-graduation plans bad been in some measure affected by the draft: 297 men or 27 per cent of the Class of 1969, responding to a slightly differently phrased question, indicated that they believed that their plans had been distorted by the draft. I cannot myself feel complacent when...