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Wilhelm echoed the evening's largely threatening rhetoric in his speech. "Harvard is not going to decide to reward you because they've come to their senses. You're going to have to fight for it," he said...
...colleges, Smith and Mount Holyoke, recently broke ranks by announcing that they would award 30 prizes of $300 and $400, respectively, to then" choice applicants. Says Mount Holyoke President Elizabeth Kennan: "Our No. 1 priority will be to fund all needy students. These prizes are intended to reward excellence...
Excessive American concern with negotiability would indeed encourage, and reward, Soviet stonewalling. But by stubbornly pursuing proposals that seem almost intended to get nowhere, the Administration has touched off a backlash, both at home and abroad, against necessary military programs. It has also, if anything, encouraged the Soviets to crank out even more weapons that will eventually have to be countered militarily or bargained over diplomatically, or both. Just as the U.S. is trying, not very successfully, to punish the Soviets for their accumulation of military power in the past, part of the Soviet strategy right now is to punish...
...partly for reasons of their own psychology. The Soviet regime is justifiably insecure about its legitimacy, in the eyes of both its own people and the rest of the world. For the men in the Kremlin, the very assertion of equal status with the U.S. was its own reward. Its value increased manyfold when the U.S. was willing to enshrine the magic word equality in the communiques issued at summits and the prologues to SALT treaties and accords that Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter signed with Leonid Brezhnev between...
...violent direct action civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr., the story of Gandhi was legitimately hailed as the most socially pertinent and meaningful non-documentary motion picture to emerge this year. What better way to pat oneself on the back than liberally to reward one's most socially responsible product? But in recognizing itself as a morally sound group, do the pundits, and beautiful people of the Academy appoint themselves as society's dictators of true intellectual value? Does Richard Attenborough, who reportedly devoted more than a decade to his brainchild, thus become the father of morality...