Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's no reason for anyone to be jealous. The quality of the singers on the Met tour this year is at least as high as in the New York house--even higher, some might argue. Because of the peculiar financial needs of the modern international opera house, tour audiences like Boston's can now see a concentration of talent in one week that New York audiences have to wait months...
...authority was stupid. One conservative insisted on supporting Pusey even though he said to me, 'Pusey is like Louis XVI, except that Louis listened to his advisers.' But the liberals argued nothing good would come of unqualified support. When the president and administration make mistakes there is no reason to support them," Hoffmann says...
...mean that we do not care about Harvard's reaction to an apartheid system that the Harvard Corporation itself has labelled "repugnant and inhuman." We are not convinced that immediate divestiture is the most effective means of exerting a force for change in South Africa; and, for this reason, we cannot support an action with immediate divestiture as its stated goal...
Acosta had another reason to be pleased with the victory. "I really wanted this one," he said, "'cause Harvard just rejected me at their law school. Now I'll just have to go to Columbia...
...REASONS why students were willing to take their commitments so far in 1969 is still not completely clear. The draft and the Vietnam War were triggers for their activism, but that could not have been the reason for student uprisings in the late '60s in Germany, Italy and France. Larger forces were at work. Now, the cycle has swung around again, toward a greater interest in social issues. But now the interest is tempered. There's no war to hate, no Dick Nixon to hate. The president of the University has learned the usefulness of being a moving target. Authority...