Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost of the Vietnam war, to see if Camus' relative order of importance of means and ends is indeed reasonable, he must calculate as sacrificed much more than American dead, South and North Vietnamese dead, billions spent for destruction, and the dissipated energy of dissent. To find the real sum, a young man must also compute the cost for a few decades to come--the cost of decades provided with men who were forced to learn to approach the world in terms of the past, rather than in terms of the future...
...towns. In essence, the Welfare Re-Organization Act meant the elimination of all municipal welfare agencies and replaced them with a state-run welfare department. Aside from assuring higher welfare care standards throughout Massachusetts, the state take-over also meant a considerable easing of the local tax burden. Municipal real estate taxes--until now the chief source of welfare funds--could be eased or the money put to other uses. For cities like Boston with huge tax rates and high welfare costs, the state's assumption of these costs would be a life-saver...
Constant trips to court, finding lawyers, raising money for legal defense and operating in a climate of general insecurity are real tests for any movement group. Worst of all, police harassment is rarely dramatic and usually does not lend itself to raising basic issues to the public at large. Police harassment and prosecution of draft refusers operates very quietly and can be very effective at isolating and demoralizing movement groups...
...Crimson swimmers rest until February 3, when they take on Pennsylvania in the IAB, Penn, however, is even weaker than Columbia, and the next real test for Harvard will not come until February 10 against Dartmouth, when the Crimson has a good chance to avenge last year's 58-37 defeat...
These are the real questions which seniors at Harvard and all over the country are grappling with this year. The immediate future is no longer the challenge that it should be in our advanced society. Instead it has become a series of moral confrontations. Our society preaches freedom and peace while it practices repression and violence. The wonder is that not more than one out of every four Harvard seniors sees his immediate future as anything less than an apocalyptic nightmare...