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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Divinity School Faculty, for its part, was equally negligent. Last December, after eight Divinity School students had turned in their draft cards, the Faculty unanimously adopted a statement in opposition to the war in Vietnam and in support of draft resistance. "Accordingly," it read, "we are prepared to help bear the burdens of those who have been conscientiously led to extraordinary means of dissent." When Olimpieri took sanctuary on Sunday, Harvey G. Cox, associate professor of Church and Society, said he hoped the Faculty would "do something together." It didn...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Sanctuary | 10/3/1968 | See Source »

...many case studies in The Secret Search, the author's treatment of the Marigold initiative is most instructive and most exciting. The account of this abortive attempt at arranging talks occupies a full third of the book, and Benjamin Read, chief assistant to Dean Rusk and one of the few people in government who has access to the full story, has assured one faculty member here that the account of this incident from late in 1966 is "90 per cent" accurate...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: The Secret Search | 10/2/1968 | See Source »

CERTAINLY John was much more involved with games than the average child is, and they played a large part in his life. "I used to live Alice (In Wonderland) and Just William. I wrote my own William stories, with me doing all the things... After I'd read a book I'd relive it all again...I wanted to be gang leader at school. I'd want them all to play the games that I wanted them to play...childhood...was all imagining I was Just William really...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Beatles | 10/1/1968 | See Source »

...effect of this mass-production of uneducated black children is obvious. Children who can't read turn into adults who can't get jobs. Rednecks point to the black illiteracy statistics, to the numbers of blacks turned down by the military, and to the abysmal inability of black Southerners to get jobs, and use these as sociological proof of the cherished racist theories. "Them niggers will never be any good," they cheerily tell squirming visitors. "They's just so dumb that all they like to do is sit around an shoot pool. Damn federal government comes down here tellin...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: High School Graduates Who Can't READ?! | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

Even the more liberal Southerners sometimes fall into the "Unqualified Nigras" trap. "I wouldn't mind hirin' some of the nigras," a lumber-yard owner said last summer, "but I just can't find any who know how to do the work. They just can't read and learn the job or work steady...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: High School Graduates Who Can't READ?! | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

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