Word: seriousness
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...Serious Difficulties. With greater or less enthusiasm, the Social Democrats and Kiesinger favor 1) signing the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, 2) banning Adolf ("Bubi") von Thadden's reactionary National Democrats in order to deprive neo-Nazis of a shield of respectability, and 3) eliminating the legal deadline on murder charges to allow the judiciary to weed out the last remaining Nazi war criminals. Strauss takes the opposite position on each issue, and has been using his growing strength in his Hausmacht (power base) to give weight to his views...
Last week, at a party congress in Munich that re-elected him as chairman with a 95% majority, Strauss also made clear that he will use the autonomous status of the Christian Socialists to threat en "serious difficulties" for the Grand Coalition if the government decides to override them on these issues...
...Harvard, Galbraith said, "crises have been avoided by ad hoc action while various window-dressing efforts at student-Faculty consultation have been contrived." He added that such ad hoc action would not survive a serious emergency and that student-Faculty committees will not be taken seriously for long...
...Nazis, we are not in Bavaria. The Munich analogy attributed to me in Wednesday's CRIMSON (12/18) is inaccurate and unwarranted in the context of our present problems. The possibility of an unrealistic and misunderstood reaction to the Paine Hall disruption is great. We all face a serious challenge to creditability, educational processes, and student concerns. We need hard thinking, not analogies. Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52 Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids
...additional points at great length: the creation of SFAC to expedite dialogue; the "new procedure on recruitment"; the willingness of the faculty to consider carefully the merits of open meetings. He attempts to present Harvard administration policy in terms of Marcuse's "repressive tolerance": call the demonstration "the most serious since I've been here" (Dean Ford), threaten unlimited punishment, and then sneer at the number of people who stayed. And finally, he attempts to pin our action on Hilary Putnam. That's pretty foul for a kindly uncle. Hutch Jenness...