Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made me very sad to see Tommie Smith and John Carlos making their demonstration for Black Power. Winning the gold and bronze medals were great personal achievements, and I am sure that any Negroes watching were proud. But was it necessary to degrade the otherwise moving ceremonies? I think there are many South African Negroes who could tell these men things that would make them appreciate their freedom-yes, freedom! I think that Smith and Carlos are only hurting the cause they hold closest to their hearts by alienating white Americans and giving people like George Wallace a chance...
...certain sad sense, Gilligan was in the same quandary as many of the college kids and young adults who came to see him. He had fought a lot of good fights this year, won a few, lost a few, and his own political party turned out to be his toughest opponent. One remembers the two-day stretch at Chicago when he tried to hammer out a peace plank acceptable to the Kennedyites and McCarthyites. After a lot of internecine name-calling, Gilligan, Dick Goodwin, and the Kennedy loyalists finally produced the minority report. The next day it was red-baited...
...past, basketball seasons have been sad times for Harvard sports fans. Seasons and games have come and gone, and year after year Harvard has ended up in the cellar. The series of disappointing losses has inspired reactions ranging from ridicule to apathetic yawns from Harvard students...
...Each year the library visiting committee met with us, and each year we told our sad tale. One year, a particular Harvard graduate had written a history of the Supreme Court. He himself was a lawyer. He was particularly well fitted to be long, verbose, tiresome, and pompous. When we told him, as the new chairman of our committee, that we wanted a rare books library, he became indignant and said he thought it was a very poor use of money. In fact, he thought that rare books were utterly useless, and as far as he was concerned, he would...
...when the "output" is so painfully evident in the forms of support for Chiang Kai-shek, containment of Communist China, and the application of scholarship in Vietnam, etc., etc. Logically, those who have contributed to the making of China policy are obligated to make public their part in that sad misadventure and take the knocks that are assuredly coming. More people than Dean Rusk are due credit for the past decade's debacle--lots of academic China experts had their fingers equally much in the foreign policy pie. How to go about establishing political innocence I really couldn...