Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert J. Reed, Pastor...
...most of those factories that had not already done so in the last months of the war closed down. But the Vietnamese are now developing substitute raw materials for those they once imported from the U.S. A factory that once made the plastic mats that replaced homemade reed mats in many Vietnamese households has been converted so that it can use native reeds. A company that imported Virginia tobacco now uses domestic tobacco, grown by villagers who have learned how to cure it from the government Textile factories that replaced the centuries old silk industry in Vietnam with cheap cotton...
Even Justice Stanley Reed, who came nearest to dissenting, declared afterward that if this was not the most significant judgment in the history of the court, it came very close to it. Louis H. Pollak, later a dean of Yale Law School, called the Brown decision "probably the most important governmental act of any kind since the Emancipation Proclamation." Richard Kluger goes even farther. He puts this revolutionary ruling-deliberately phrased in bland language and read in a matter-of-fact voice by a moderate Republican from California-at the heart of 200 years of American history...
...everyone is entitled to an opinion, however wrong), but the customary godlike attitude that the Crimson takes toward its readers. Are we really intended to take Jeff Flanders' command to "throw away all the reviews you've seen of it" (Flanders is better equipped to evaluate a film than Reed, Crist, Canby, Kael, et al) seriously, or is it another example of the Crimson's weird, self-serving sense of humor? Are Handel, Bach and Schubert "second-rate music"? Why the duplication of reviews rather than the "dissenting minority opinion" column so thoughtfully given to political issues...
...broken wrist he suffered in last month's NYU contest. Matt Simmons also won two bouts, while sophomore Bob Barger won one. Marion said his epee team looked "pretty good" but was still "erratic" and, at times, "hysterical." The return of the Crimson's top epee man, senior Eric Reed, should help in settling down the epee class...