Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early last Fall, SDS focused its attention on the presence of ROTC at Harvard. As the New York Times pointed out in December. ROTC-graduated second lieutenants play a vital role in the Vietnam War. From a broader perspective, the U.S. military provides support for America's more refined imperialist presence in underdeveloped countries around the world with soldiers, weapons technology, and training in counter-insurgency methods...
...sanctity of the ivory tower and the need to stiffen up ROTC's academic face. They succeeded in defusing the discussion of ROTC in official channels. The eventual Faculty debate centered on the academic qualifications of the Training Corps and the nature of the University, not ROTC's role in sustaining U.S. imperialism...
Social Realism as a form is tighter, more constrained, more artificial than the sonnet. It has only one scenario: the proletariat realizing its historical role. It has no hero except the proletariat itself. It has only one outcome, the triumph of workers. To a Marxist of course this is the scenario of history, so it is obviously valid and objective. Social Realism is in many ways more like a theorem than a complex work of art. It uses the postulates of a particular system of belief in order to deduce a proof that the original beliefs were valid...
...other joint committees will look into student student representation on the Fainsod Committee--the Faculty's committee on decision-making in the University, the student role in the HarvardRadcliffe merger, and freshman housing...
Yale can only play the role of the spoiler in today's encounter. The Elis, 1-10 overall, have scored their only victory over punchless Columbia. Yale's nightmare season has included drubbings, by Rutgers, Princeton, Penn, and Brown, and one brutal week early in the season in which the Elis were shut out 36-0, 34-0, and 37-0, by strong teams from Army, Lehing, and Iowa, respectively...