Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newspapers of Boston at that time also took to editorializing about the incident. The Boston Courier, which was the paper read by those of the Federalist or Whig disposition, stated its whole-hearted agreement with President Quincy and the Gov- ernment of the University. On the other hand, the Boston Transcript, a Jacksonian paper edited by several recent graduates, put their sympathies with the students. "We have just heard of a new act of the wise men who guide the councils of our Alma Mater. . . ," the Transcript stated, "which threatens to ruin that ancient Institution...
Radical romanticism is what you read about in those oddly-numbered CRIMSON radicalism articles on Wednesdays. It seems, at present, to have something to do with rock music, mysticism, the carpe diem motif, and the notion that "things aren't caused, they just happen--then we react or categorize." It has a lot to do with self-expression. That's why the best and most creative people can afford to be romantics. But perhaps there are times when none of us can afford to be romantics...
...Hill in 1949 "to create new formulas for radio," also has its enemies. In 1963, the U.S. Senate Internal Security Sub committee investigated Pacifica for Communist infiltration. In 1964, the FCC dismissed a battery of complaints against Pacifica, including obscenity charges, after Berkeley's KPFA broadcast readings of poems by Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and a frank talk among eight homo sexuals about their problems and attitudes. The latest and most bitter com plaints were raised early this year after a militant Negro guest on Manhattan's WBAI read an anti-Semitic poem on the air; a black militant...
...news in its annual budget and gets quick approval from a compliant Parliament. In what has become a national guessing game, Britons start hedge-buying weeks beforehand on goods and services that they expect to be hit by new taxes. They are urged on by shop-window posters that read "Beat the Budget." Because of Britain's economic difficulties, the guessing in recent years has been over where-not whether-the tax ax would fall...
...period is 1936, and those who read this minor masterpiece for the first time will be given a lively sense of what it was like to be young in that year and possessed of an eloquent dread of what the near future held. Its two gifted and high-spirited young authors-Wystan Hugh Auden and Louis MacNeice-have, in fact, put time...