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...recent history of Harvard has been notable for the progress made toward an appreciative understanding of the various communities of belief represented here. People have come to see more clearly the values contained in the traditions not their own. It is arrogance to scorn what others hold sacred...
...John Cale left the Velvet Underground. His solo album, appropriately Vintage Violence, rejects further exploration in the maniacal realms for a complex, coherent eclecticism. The sensibility of Vintage Violence is nothing so much as non-violent. A sense of tranquility rather than jagged scorn runs through all of Cale's imagery...
Some of those who made the list spoke indignantly, in the words of Nat Hentoff, of "selective repression." Most met inclusion with scorn. Jessica Mitford vowed to "add it to my list of awards and honors in Who's Who." One of the more intriguing facts in the report was that the speakers had earned a total of $108,000 so far in campus lecture fees, showing that radicalism can be profitable. In fact, the blacklisting probably made them still more desirable as campus speakers...
...week of my freshman year at Radcliffe, our dorm residents held an introductory meeting to announce that five girls had been raped on Garden Street and we should please never walk through the Common at night without an escort. This warning was met with nervous laughter and pseudo-sophisticated scorn. Everyone continued to walk defiantly through the Common, whether attended or not, no one got raped without at least first giving her consent, and when, that spring, a man wandered off the street into Jordan J and stabbed a girl with an ice-pick, only a few of the more...
...some 2,600 merchant ships is second to none. In the 95 capitals where Moscow maintains diplomatic representation (up from 71 in 1965), sophisticated commercial attaches are replacing the ill-mannered salesman in the ill-fitting suit who for years was the Soviet stereotype and the object of scorn...