Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mean to say that you don't know any radicals, for I'm sure some of your best friends are radicals. Furthermore, anything you accuse a radical of saying has probably been said by someone calling himself a radical: "Drugs are revolutionary," or "Up against the wall, motherfucker," or "American capitalism is now essentially like European capitalism in the middle of the 19th century." And sometimes such views come to dominate a particular scene to the extent that they actually express, for the moment, the viewpoint of a significant group of radicals. And this may be a necessary stage...
...calls "shared responsibility" (that is, to preserve the university) becomes pointless. The kind of university that would develop out of such an ideology is not "worth more than any riot"--to me, it is worth nothing. If Harvard develops further in that direction, I would soon be ready to say, "All right, we are two universities...
...address each other as "gentleman." They put their feet up on my table. And say: things will improve. And I don't ask when. Bertolt Brecht
...United States Army has a perfect right to say that, but let's realize the context in which they are putting the present debate over ROTC. To take a position of either maintaining ROTC courses at Harvard or upgrading them is to take a position for training professional officers at a University, for the role which such officers will play in the U.S. Army, and for, consequently, the role which the U.S. military is presently engaged in. It is hardly an issue of "University neutrality...
Miss Vosgerchian doesn't exaggerate what can be taught in composition. The technique is explained, the enthusiasm encouraged, but the student must adapt them for his own purposes. "I'll never forget a student of mine," she says. "He had certain disagreements with what I said, but during each lesson he would say nothing. Yet when he came back, the next week, I could tell exactly what he had rejected...