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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another section that the NUC finds objectionable reads: "The Board has further voted that if in the future it finds that you have participated in obstructing the orderly workings of any segment of the university, it will cancel the suspension and sever your connection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GSAS Students Say Punishment Is 'Intimidating' | 1/20/1969 | See Source »

Optimism and Gloom. The intelligence quandary would be easier for Nixon to unsnarl if each segment of Government argued with one voice-with, say, the State Department citing political considerations to counterpoint the military contentions of the Pentagon. That has been known to happen. In 1963, after listening to conflicting reports from a general and a diplomat who had just returned from a joint mission to Viet Nam, President Kennedy was moved to inquire: "Have you two gentlemen been in the same country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Conflicting Advice | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...that makes them the continent's most effective political force. In the present circumstances, the vast majority of the officers feel that the armies need ail the strength they can get. Though Fidel Castro is not their idol, South American youths, who represent by far the fastest-growing segment of the population, are swinging ever more to the left. The officers, who mostly embody conservative, lower-middle-class views, hope to arrest that movement with tough government action. They are also thoroughly disgusted with civilian politicians, who have failed to cope with the urgent problems of their countries. Trained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SOUTH AMERICA: ARMIES IN COMMAND | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...interludes, and some of his Grecian tableaux smack of spring pageants at Vassar. Still, he has a strong sense of place, and he uses the azure skies and limpid Mediterranean to give the story the cast of eternity and overtones of legend-in-the-making. In the final hallucinatory segment, he makes the screen a place of brilliant anguish, when time present and time past mix like ouzo and water until neither is what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Orpheus Now | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...great symbolic significance in the present struggle for black freedom. To write about him and his revolt now, in present-day America, is to write propaganda and allegory. It is to make a de facto attempt to influence the thinking of contempory blacks and whites on a vital segment of black history and thus influence the final outcome of the present struggle...

Author: By Clyde Lindsay, | Title: Wm. Styron Plays With Creating History | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

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