Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Increasingly, students at Harvard are displaying an unnerving self-confidence in their own ability to do anything, an attitude that seems alien to the old academic virtue of modest contemplation at the foot of the savants. Celebrated professors like John Kenneth Galbraith and George Wald no longer command the ardent reverence once enjoyed by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Perry Miller and Crane Brinton, the superstars of the '50s. Explains Mike Tompkins, a junior from Paris who is both a Presidential and a National Merit Scholar: "There are many admirable men at Harvard and they are appreciated. But we have very...
...opting radical student demands, the Harvard faculty recently voted to take academic credit away from ROTC and to create an Afro-American studies program. Three courses that are essentially radical in viewpoint are now being taught with the approval of the faculty, some by section leaders who are self-styled Marxists...
...statement emphatically endorsing the professors' stand, "is that now the threats to academic liberty and integrity often come from within." Declared Pusey: "Harvard has the right to expect that members of its faculties and the great majority of its students will have sufficient understanding, historical sense, reason and self-control to insist that coercive methods have no place in this university community." Harvard has been able to count on such understanding in the past. Whether it can continue to do so, at a time when some students are increasingly intoxicated with their own power, is an open question...
...disease. In eight of the families studied, parents had suspected leukemia before any doctor ever mentioned it. The parents' first reactions ranged from outward calm to outright loss of control. Most suffered physical distress within the next few days or weeks, besides depression, anger, hostility and self-blame...
...describe dimensions with a move of his hand. Since he provided the driving force behind One-Eyed Jacks, of which he was both star and director in 1961, Brando has essayed a series of character roles in a succession of failures: a brooding cowpoke in The Appaloosa, a self-righteous sheriff in The Chase, a cagey con-man in Bedtime Story. Once again in a film good enough to match his talents, he demonstrates conclusively in Night that his powers remain undiminished by intervening years of sloppiness and self-indulgence. It is good to have him back...