Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your revealing article "The Second Phase in Paris" [Dec. 6] gave me serious doubts as to the sincere .desires of the four parties concerned to achieve a "just and honorable peace." It seems absurd that mature men, especially those honored in the ranks of world diplomacy and charged with the awesome responsibility of ending a war that has become one of the most unpopular and ethically debatable in history, could spend months haggling over such minuscule points of procedure as the shape of the conference table and the number of doors leading to the main hall. It was estimated that...
...most part, the nominations that flood TIME'S mailbox are careful and serious, often well-reasoned. Even those who nominate themselves are usually quite sincere. "You have my photograph in your files," wrote a man from Manhattan. "It is that blurred composite picture showing a man trying to keep his ear to the ground, his eye on the future and his chin up." There is always a group of loyal wives, like the woman from Florida who nominated her husband -"on behalf of all husbands and fathers who, though part of the establishment, set an example of honesty, integrity...
...improved if the Faculty had been able to hold a normal meeting, just as we could have discussed the holding of open meetings if the sit-in had not prejudged the issue. In coming days, it would be tragic if Faculty indignation became a pretext for dodging the two serious issues of ROTC and of the students' role in the process of decision. But if the Faculty returns to those issues, it will be despite the sit-in, not because of it. This is the difference with last year...
Cancelling the meeting at 2:30 and calling the sit-in "a very serious obstruction of Faculty business" was not the only course of action open to the Deans. They could have converted the special meeting to an open forum with no votes. They could have allowed the whole Faculty to convene and decide whether or not to waive the closed meeting rule. Professor Michael Walzer told the the students afterwards that he had planned to introduce such a motion. If some one had told that group that before, they might well have voted...
...kind of innocent girl I've always wanted to meet at a be-in. I guessed that if she were alive and at Harvard now and still looked like that, she would be deeply involved in relationships with two boys, and she would have one of the most serious and agonized minds in history...