Word: referring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact is that Harvard plays up scholarship at the expense of creativity, and most students accept this, either not creating at all or riddling their work with signs of scholasticism (what percentage of Advocate poems refer to the Metaphysical Poets, in extenso?). This position--that there is little or no common ground between creativity and scholarship--is one stand; I wish to strike at least a small blow for the other, and say that noncreative scholarship in any field is dry and sterile. Certainly in science, certainly in philosophy, hard steady work and really original thinking (the two hallmarks...
...Wieland case provides an excellent opportunity to set a new precedent. President Kennedy has already spoken out for Wieland and Miller. Were Dean Rusk to make a vigorous statement in defense of the two men claiming complete responsibility for their actions and requesting Congressmen to refer any criticisms to him personally, their careers could still be saved. The Secretary, if he responded with equal firmness to any future cases of this sort, would soon end the "witch-hunt" for security risks. Secretary of Defense MacNamara's recent defense of his censors show how effective a strong stand in support...
...repay evil with evil," he warned his fellow Europeans, "is to be conquered by evil. Replying to crime with crime is dishonor. To attack the innocent, inflicting cruel punishment upon them, is an offense against God!" In answer, his parishioners openly boo the archbishop in his cathedral and sneeringly refer to him as "Mohammed Duval...
...Appeal. The peasants refer to both the Diem government and the Communists as they, as if recognizing that a peasant cannot be a participant in the war, only a victim. But even the most isolated tribesmen must choose to which of them he wants to give his allegiance. Typical of the Reds' recruiting and propaganda is one of their recent forays among the Jarai tribe of the central plateau. More than 100 Viet Cong arrived one night, lit a bonfire and assembled the people. "A Communist spoke for 30 or 40 minutes," reported a tribesman. "He spoke Jarai, just...
...page of Degrees may look like a page of the Bible with long run-on verses, or a surrealist prose poem, or highly idiosyncratic free verse, or a laundry list. There are parentheses within parentheses. A question asked on page 126 is answered on page 148. One sentence may refer to three different times, skip backward and forward to three or four unrelated events, be spoken or written down (one does not know which) by either of two characters impersonating another...