Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when the spirit of self-determination is running strongly, the administration of Columbia's affairs too often conveyed an attitude of authoritarianism and invited distrust. In part, the appearance resulted from style: for example, it gave affront to read that an influential University official was no more interested in student opinion on matters of intense concern to students than he was in their taste for strawberries. In part, the appearance reflected the true state of affairs. The machinery of student government had been allowed to deteriorate to a point where Columbia College had no student government. The Report...
...line of their pro-Wallace state- ment read: "The whole nation, stirred to teeming excitement by his eloquence, has tingled in every polyglot branch: English and French, Irish and Italian, German and Polish, Hungarian and Japanese, black and white, Swede and Magyar, all have mouthed his name in ecstasy, flnging the wonderful sound to the blue God-given skies until the vast ness of America roared...
...other side of the road is a mammoth white billboard. WELCOME TO HISTORIC ALABAMA, it says. ALABAMA, CRADLE OF THE CONFEDERACY AND HEART OF DIXIE WELCOMES YOU. At the bottom, in capital letters just as large as the rest, is LURLEEN WALLACE, GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA. It's hard to read LURLEEN, because right underneath it is GEORGE. The Alabama Highway Department has always been embarrassingly short of money, and it didn't want to bother painting out George's name. Albert Brewer, who has been Governor since Lurleen died last spring, hasn't made the welcome signs...
...course, this is not true of a good number of people at Harvard--people who have read and thought and listened, and have then acted, by doing such things as draft counseling or resistance, developing new courses or seminars, or in some cases by actively working for McCarthy. But it is true of a good many others who see it as fashionable to be "radical," to criticize, to yell, to hiss, without thinking about what they are doing. Perhaps these are the people who are unwilling to make the complete break, and who will, for the most part, eventually "sell...
...letter read: "The Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee shares the concern of the Harvard community over your remarks on student radicals, as reported in the CRIMSON of Oct. 1. We join with the Student-Faculty Advisory Council in requesting a clarification of the intent and implications of your remarks...