Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keller had little trouble breezing through his bouts, 5-3, 5-4, and 5-0. But surprising help came from his fellow foilmen Sam Fouts and Cliff Ruderman, who won four out of their six matches...
...truth was probably more the latter than the former. In fact, the conference drew almost exclusively on the much-maligned "liberal establishment." In a closing attack Sam Brown, a former Harvard Divinity student, seized on this as a major failing of the conference. Before he spoke a few lonely pickets outside the Princeton Theological Seminary (where the closing session was held) made the same point. "These tired old conferees are being used to give the illusion that 'intellectuals' are participating in America's absurdity," their sign read and then listed I.F. Stone, Dwight MacDonald, Norman Mailer, Noam Chomsky, Mary McCarthy...
...Sam Brown tried to make this point in his final remarks when he attacked the participants for lacking passion in their approach to the problems of youth and the plight of blacks. Brown was not implying that passion should supplant reason in the discussion, which Arthur Schlesinger Jr. accused him of saying. He seemed rather to sense that talk of the previous days had gone to the other extreme, that the syle of reasoned discussion had detached the conference too much from the reality of the social crisis occurring outside of the sedate, columned Whig Hall, and indeed, outside...
Later in the day, Sam Brown, a former Harvard Divinity student, called the conference "a tragic failure." He accused the participants of lacking passion in their discussion of world problems and of failing to address crucial moral questions...
...Senior Sam Fouts and junior Cliff Ruderman will fence number two and three foil...