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...addition to condemning Bush’s foreign policy, Kennedy’s address called for a “new era of common purpose?? in America, laying out a point-by-point platform for legislative reform of tax, education, health care and civil rights policies...
...have some nostalgia for those turbulent times. In the early 70s, almost none of my college classmates would have said that they were attending college to obtain a good job. Behind the naive idealism of the time, there was a license to reflect upon why, and to what purpose??I miss this. I wish I could give advice that would bring back the ideological discussions, at least as I have romanticized them...
...proven that futile) so much as to induce it to. “Coercion,” thus used, simply refers to any form of action used by one party that aims to make all alternatives to a desired outcome less preferable to the other party. Indeed, the purpose??and the success—of the sit-in was to make it so costly and embarrassing for Harvard to pay its workers poverty wages that it would choose on its own to change its ways...
However, even more troubling are the screens suspended throughout the theater, displaying slides to accompany the action on stage. The images on the screens do not serve a constant purpose??sometimes they provide a physical background and at other times they comment on the scene’s meaning. The only consistent aspect of the slides is that they never advance the production; the images are bizarrely stylized, artistically lacking and more distracting than anything else. At one point, a heavily pixilated fade is repeatedly used that had me staring at a screen and recalling the effects...
Summers was asked only two questions during the period reserved for this purpose??and one was directed at Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles...