Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agree with my former student and friend Dan Swanson, whose passions I respect, that the Crimson should have memorialized May Day, as a day of revolutionary awakening. And on that day, one could reflect on the savage injustices in South Africa, Chile and similar repressive countries. But one could also have called attention to those revolutionaries rotting in Cuban prisons. I think, for example, of Major Huber Matos, a comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro in the guerilla movement, who has been 18 years--yes, 18 years--in jail, for the sole crime of expressing disagreement with the Maximum Lider...
...STUDENTS HAVE been excluded from most of the decision-making process to this point, the Faculty still seems reluctant to provide formally for student input. Student members of the committees will not have voting rights. More substantial representation is needed if the final resolution of Core controversies is to reflect student interests adequately...
...Washington, primarily to discuss the Middle East peace talks. Dayan, however, did some lobbying of his own against the Saudi planes deal. The spectacle of the Minister breakfasting privately with six Senators, five of them members of the Foreign Relations Committee, led New York Times Columnist James Reston to reflect ruefully: "There was a time in this capital when a British ambassador was recalled to London because he expressed a preference in a social gathering for one Presidential candidate over the other, but that was in the days when there were rules and even manners about what was permissible...
...deprive them." Another section, clearly aimed at clerical activists, declares that "priests, monks and nuns should not under normal circumstances participate in political struggle." The theme of the Puebla conference is how to evangelize an increasingly urbanized society, but opponents of the draft document contend that it fails to reflect a key post-Vatican II teaching: evangelization is inseparable from social concern...
...speeches are supposed to reflect one's personal experience at Harvard, Elam said yesterday. "Basically, mine is about love, my grandfather and Harvard. For me the speech is something very personal and allowed me to give more meaning to my grandfather's life," he said...