Word: race
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Riot opens on an interesting enough premise as the audience is introduced to a panel of four "experts." We are told they will conduct a discussion of race relations. All the participants are easily recognized: there is John Benjamin, a Jewish liberal who has been in the vanguard of the civil rights movement; Harley Marshall, the waspish director of a Christian anti-Communist league; Nubo Okuni, an unyielding black militant; and Willie Woods, the epitome of the Negro who's made it. The audience is asked to play the role of their reasonable and sympathetic listeners...
...rioters enter to threaten the audience. We are confronted with ghetto rats, miscegenation, and bayonets. A disquieting sense of unease forces us to abandon our earlier role of the enlightened, liberal audience. Each time the panel resumes, the absurdity of the very pretense of a "discussion of race relations" becomes more evident. All of the panel's proposed "rational" solutions--individual initiative, integration, compromise, separatism--collapse. Even the experts are not safe...
Harvard's soccer team, eliminated from the Ivy League race last weekend by a 5-1 defeat at the hands of league-leading Brown, must beat Yale in its finale to avoid a second division finish for the first time since...
Sophomore Dave Pottetti led the Crimson effort, surging to the front early and holding a slim lead over the field of 250 for the first mile. As the race progressed into the wooded hills, however, Pottetti gave way to Georgetown's Steve Stageberg...
Harvard's booters start another race today when they oppose Army at 1:30 p.m. on the Business School field in the first round of the NCAA Eastern Regional Tournament...