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Sizer's letter said, "Paradoxically, the degree to which a university is strong is directly related to the degree to which it is fragile." He condemned intolerance and self-righteous factions on both sides, and inflexible rules, as hampering progress...
...gatherings. Thomas opposed the U.S. role in Viet Nam. "We must stop thinking that God has called us to be policemen," he said. "You never had a more high-minded intervener than Woodrow Wilson. But I don't notice it worked so well. Wilson wanted to be very righteous. You know, he felt that he and God thought very much alike...
...distrustful. When two lightly armed U.S. destroyers steamed into the Black Sea on a routine show-the-flag cruise, Moscow called it a "dangerous provocation"-even though the Black Sea is indisputably an international waterway open to ships of all nations. The Russians managed to sound especially self-righteous, since in recent weeks they have pulled back some 20 of the 52 ships from their flotilla in the Mediterranean. According to U.S. Navy officials, such sanctimoniousness on the part of the Russians is hardly justified; the Americans claim that the Communist admirals are doing nothing more than returning ships...
...first-rate U.S. TV premiere for Harold Pinter's The Dwarfs, and a colloquy between a group of concerned college students and a melancholy Walter Lippmann. Most important, the lab exposed a not-so-latent racism in U.S. society. There were bitter confrontations between militant blacks and self-righteous whites, stark views of ghetto living conditions, including one film shot and narrated by Gordon Parks, and cutting satire, such as a Negro-slanted aptitude test (sample question: "How long do you cook chitlins?"), By chance, PBL's camera crews tracked Martin Luther King throughout the last three months...
...franc is basically a crisis of national confidence. Too many Frenchmen have been buying bullion and foreign money and transferring their savings to foreign countries in hopes of eluding an increase in taxes and a decrease in the franc's value. It is too easy for self-righteous Americans to condemn this behavior. Anybody who has not seen his own fortunes dissipated by recurrent invasions, inflations and devaluations cannot fully understand the miser mentality of many Frenchmen and other Europeans...