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...could continue, but the picture is more than clear. Students are not so much a constituency, force, and raison d'etre of the University as a resource of the Corporation, to be manipulated to its own advantage. Only the Corporation and its Administration will have any meaningful say in the affairs of the University and it shall be the final arbiter of the interests of both the students and the Faculty. The Corporation has not the slightest intention of allowing its power and perceptions to be questioned, or of allowing its goals for the University to be challenged...
Black Theater is theater by, about and directed towards the black community. Black Theater is entertaining (and not simply because drama-in-black-face is the current vogue), and, more importantly, illuminating. As Peter Bailey writes in Newsweek (February 24), ". . . its raison d'etre is cultural nationalism." Its purpose is to further the growth and self-knowledge of the black audience. In today's theater there is more than ever, before a natural empathy between the black playwright and his black audience; there is no need for an exposition of "the problem," the presumption being that the audience, being black...
...There he planned a brief speech to the ambassadors from the 15 NATO member nations. Afterward, he was to hold private conferences on the state of the alliance with NATO Secretary-General Manlio Brosio and various NATO ambassadors. Before the invasion of Czechoslovakia, some NATO experts regarded the original raison d'être of the alliance as outmoded and hoped to transform it from a military deterrent into a means of relaxing East-West political tensions. Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger, who is accompanying Nixon, has never believed that NATO is a fit instrument for detente and deterrence alike...
...Americana, the company town, which once ranged from Western mine and lumber settlements to Southern cotton camps. Somehow, Daniels, nestled in a wooded hollow along a back road eleven miles west of Baltimore, has managed to survive. Its company store, company houses, company-dominated churches and company mill-its raison d'être-all remained intact in the age of the megalopolis...
...demonstrators had submitted freely to punishment, they would have been admitting the validity of the administration's power over the students. They were demonstrating over the illegitimacy of such power. To have surrendered in a gentlemanly fashion would have eliminated the raison d'etre of the demonstration...