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...questions of discrimination continue to recur only to be answered by embarrassing silences or official statements which leave some doubt as to the intensity of Harvard's feeling for social equality...

Author: By Russell B. Roberts, | Title: Brass Tacks: Racial Bias And Harvard College | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...guitar (Stanley Silverman), vibraphone (Paul Price), xylophone (Raymond Desroches), and percussion (Max Neuhaus). The texture of the sound is always clear, sometimes shimmering, sometimes punctiform, and always changing. With the flexibility of tempi and timbre goes an obvious fixity of notes and rhythmic patterns; certain intervals and rhythmic groupings recur constantly. And with all this planning, with all this studied freedom, the work still justifies a non-rational evaluation: it is dramatic, and worth hearing...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Pierre Boulez | 3/19/1963 | See Source »

...that his aides in the Congo had exceeded their orders. "There occurred a serious breakdown," a spokesman said, "in effective communication and coordination between the U.N. headquarters and the Leopoldville office.'' Off to Leopoldville "to determine the cause of this lapse and to ensure it will not recur" flew U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche. But once there, Bunche announced that the U.N. still wanted "freedom of movement" throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: The U.N. Drives Implacably Ahead | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...there a likelihood of such wars recurring? Yes, there is. Are uprisings of this kind likely to recur? Yes, they are. Is there the likelihood of conditions in other countries reaching the point where the cup of the popular patience overflows and they take to arms? Yes, there is such a likelihood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Paste This in Your Hat | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

Reading through this supplement, you will find that a number of related themes frequently recur. Byron Stookey's proposal for a lengthened period of education points up one of them quite vividly: "Do we believe," he asks, "that we all know, when we are 19, everything we want to learn? Do we believe that we all shall (later) find, in our careers and communities, and acquaintances, stimulus to intelligent self-education...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: An Introduction | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

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