Word: quarreling
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...received a letter from one of our graduate students. In its paragraph he deplored our Federal Administration's actions in Indochina and applauded his faculty's decision to enlighten academic obligations for those compelled by conscience to devote their time to war activity. It is hard to quarrel with this. But then he went on, and I quote: "Two important members of the Administration... are presently on leave from the faculty. I respectfully suggest that the Faculty immediately and publicly sever all the connections which these men have with Harvard. The fact the faculty contains many including perhaps yourself...
...people who were to become known as the Pope's Jews were mostly refugees from Languedoc in southwestern France, whose ruler, King Philip IV, banished Jews from the province in order to seize their property. Ironically, Philip had also helped provide a place of asylum. A quarrel between the king and Pope Boniface VIII had played a part in the election of a French Pope, who moved the papal court to Avignon in 1308. There it remained until 1377, and there the banished Jews found a home. The Avignon Popes, beginning with Clement V, welcomed them-at least partly...
Spain. Fulbright said that he had no basic quarrel with the contents of the five-year agreement signed last week by Secretary of State William Rogers and Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Gregorio López Bravo; in fact, he added, he would probably vote for it if it were submitted to the Senate as a treaty to be ratified. But that had not been done, and that is what irked Fulbright...
...modes. The piece is in four parts, somewhat loosely-structured, and is partly aleatory-at a random signal from the percussionist, the performers jump back to an earlier section of the work and replay it, in order to destroy whatever structure may have been created. I can have no quarrel with the performance-it seemed all right to me, but the work itself seems open to question. Aleatory music-music based on chance-is well-established, but is it legitimate music...
That is an effective emotional appeal; who, after all, could quarrel with the goal of protecting the lives of young Americans? Moreover, the President's legal right to go into Cambodia can be roundly defended. However, the idea that protecting American troops in the field automatically justifies other actions -which may be questionable on their own merits-is a disturbing doctrine. Nixon has used it often and pursued it assiduously. He appears to be saying: it does not matter how or for what reason, faulty or otherwise, the troops got there in the first place. Now that they...