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...obvious departure from the days of approved guerrilla sabotage, "everybody is forbidden to burn down public buildings, kill, rob, rape, loot or create any incident that endangers the life and property of the public and of the revolutionary government." All private newspapers and magazines were "temporarily" suspended for the sake of protecting "public peace." On the streets there was already one conspicuous change. Most women, mindful of the Communists' reputed distaste for Western ways, were dressed in subdued, traditional ao-dais rather than the colorful miniskirts and heavy makeup of just a few days before...
...other classes." The "special efforts which Dean Pipkin envisions as necessary if all sophomores were to live in the Yard are not now required. The Whitla-Pinck report, Perspectives on the Houses at Harvard and Radcliffe, states, "No student ought to live in a House merely for the sake of bed and board and to study and enjoy his university life elsewhere." This has been the chief virtue of the House system since its inception...
...external causes of our military setbacks, while you close your conscience to collective responsibility, while you close your eyes to facts and reality, while you close your ears to cries for help from those who fought with you for our common ideals, please, for God's sake, don't close your heart to the human tragedy of Viet Nam. As human beings, please help, please...
...hastily summoned reporters to Prestwick Airport as he prepared to leave. He claimed that the demonstrations against him "did not reflect the interests of the English working class and its unions." He blamed the protests on the Jews. Contending that the U.S.S.R. had fought World War II for the sake of Jews, he charged that they are now "ungrateful enemies of détente." In fact, most demonstrators were Protestant Britons or Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian refugees...
...Lipset. At one point, the fiddler will change his tune, and the university will find itself in the position of having to dance. That will happen, one way or another. But more important, the university by its own means has destroyed the myth of scholarship for its own sake. It cannot be preserved against those who no doubt will demand that scholars begin to produce knowledge for the benefit to those whom it now ignores...