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Robert Kennedy's vision outreached his program. He saw the slums and called for private investment to revitalize them, never doubting that the businessmen who had helped destroy the cities would be eager to rebuild them. His plans to resurrect Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, started only by virtue of his personal resolve, are now in a shambles. The bombing in Asia he deplored -- without questioning the basic tenets of American foreign policy -- is still destroying villages and killing people. He never left behind his liberal convictions, never saw the evil about him as a logical outgrowth of the American system...
When about 200 graduate students voted unanimously Wednesday night to resurrect the Graduate Student Teaching Fellow Union and organize a strike around seven demands for a revised plan, the rationale was strangely similar--"we have no choice," several spokesmen said at the meeting...
...directorship, Thomas Hoving's image has described a remarkable parabola. He began with a lot: youth (at 35, the youngest director in the Met's history), vast enthusiasm, intelligence, a growing reputation as a medievalist and solid backing from the WASP establishment. He was, to resurrect a headline from his Central Park days, A HAPPENING CALLED HOVING, the epitome of New Frontier bounce, flair and pragmatic cheek. Today, he is besieged in the museum whose physical shape, and concomitant policies, he has irrevocably defined and changed...
...Beowulf epic has once again risen from its grave; but even the Christians knew better than to resurrect the dead more than once. Still not content, Gardner spices his novel with allusions to Arthurian legend. And to all this he adds his own version of that classic Faulknerian tale of the decay of the proud and respected Compson family. It is all done in the same battered, albeit rigid, multi-consciousness point of view...
...Committee on Students and Community Relations, a student Faculty advisory council formed in response to the 1969 University Hall crisis, expired Tuesday after and extended identity crisis. Members voted unanimously to disband, but may resurrect the CSCR in another form at their final meeting next week...