Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they are ready to shoot you. We are still afraid to die, and most of us realize the absurdity of dying for something--it is useless if your are dead. To be a rebel, to be ready to die, writes Camus, is to realize that rebellion is its own reason for existing. It is not rebellion for something, but simply rebellion for its own sake, rebellion because man cannot be man without rebelling. Few of us are there, and few of us are even getting there. Harvard taught us to be afraid to die anyway...
Here lies the second reason why Harvard's complacency proved misplaced. We had all studied what had happened in other Universities, particularly at Berkeley and Columbia, but also abroad. Many of us had concluded that Harvard would be spared because the specific issues which had allowed a small group to mobilize support elsewhere--issues related to the nature, policies and specific structure of those other Universities did not exist at Harvard. There was, it seemed, no widespread "alienation" of the student body, no breakdown in communications between students, teachers and administrators in an academic community with decentralized power and remarkable...
Another possible reason for objecting to Federal student aid is that parts of it are subject to the so-called anti-riot clauses, which stipulate that funds shall be denied to students who use unlawful tactics. I think these stipulations are inappropriate. Nevertheless it is important to note that the law does not restrict freedom of thought, dissent or speech. Moreover, discretion to deny the funds has been left with the University. So far as I know, no such denials have been made...
COLUMBIA, Mo. June 8--For the first time in 29 years, Harry S. Truman won't be coming to this mid-Missouri city for the commencement ceremonies of the University of Missouri, and observers here feel they know the reason why--Truman is going to be in Cambridge, Mass. instead, to get the Harvard honorary degree he has so long desired...
...helps betray Lowell into incoherence. Surrealism, after all, is mainly for those who applaud calculated chaos as critical therapy, a place where turned-on birds may sing but no poetry is written. When Lowell's struggle is against his own chaos, he does not always win. But when reason triumphs, poetry prevails. When Lowell confronts the world outside, he compels, not perhaps always for the justice of his cause but for the quality of his partisanship...