Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think that President Pusey was right. I ask you to do our police department the service of looking into the charges of brutality." Councillor Edward A. Crane '35, who voted for the resolution, answered Mrs. Ackermann by saying that the "isolated cases of brutality are incidental. The fundamental question is whether you take a stand against self-proclaimed revolutionaries." Crane also said that he personally witnessed the pilferage of desks in the basement of University Hall. "I saw one young person take out of a desk a roll of stamps, put it in his pocket and walk off," he said...
...when it finally does, the question that has been forming in your mind--why Shea decided to write about Lermontov and not Pushkin--begins to dissipate. Of course Lermontov is a tinhorn, a two-bit mock-up of Pushkin, a caricature of a radical artist who is grotesque rather than tragic (though, by some trick, he becomes almost tragic in the end). That is precisely the point; Pushkin was above revolution, though he was a friend of revolutionaries. He saw through it. Lermontov was beneath revolution; he was merely bored, dissatisfied with things the way they were for some vague...
...more of a test of how well we handlded the bad conditions than of how well we moved the boat," Parker said. Critics will be watching today's race for an answer to this more important question which has crucial implications for next week's race against Penn...
...true that an intense, emotional atmosphere can push people strongly in the direction of what a radical-romantic believes to be the right decisions. This raises a fierce moral problem; there is a question of individual conscience, the right to remain constricted, one might say. I hear my heroes laughing at my very rhetoric, so I will switch to a tactical argument: stable liberation, whatever it might mean, must be reaction to internal needs, not to external circumstances. It is mere intellectual arrogance to point out to a Harvard student that the life is being squeezed...
Harvard is strongly favored to beat the Lions this afternoon but is without question an underdog to the Tigers tomorrow...