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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further virtue of embodying both the petition and the implementation of radical academic change. An effective exam boycott would not only urge the Administration formally to abolish exams, but would in reality be effecting such abolition unilaterally, since the Administration would have no way of counteracting the boycott short of failing the entire student body, which would be inherently meaningless...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: A Proposal Concerning Exams | 4/28/1969 | See Source »

...Steven Shea's first major attempt as a play-wright; it contains a large cast (eleven leads); and the physical obstacles to be overcome in staging it (something over twenty changes of scene) are enormous. That is part of the reason why, though it falls a bit short of its ambitions, its success is still considerable...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: A Hero of Our Time | 4/26/1969 | See Source »

...view of what society will be after the revolution is the only part of his philosophy which seemed to fall short. "The ideas I find in Marx are still good enough for me," he said. It's very nice to think about a perfect communist society, a classless state where people are truly free of the economic bonds which kill ours...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Marcuse at B.U. | 4/26/1969 | See Source »

...program is clearly still on its shakedown cruise. Benti himself is engaging and incisive, but he has yet to emerge with distinctive authority and character. Hughes Rudd, who has a growing reputation as a writer of short stories and published a 1966 collection, My Escape from the CIA and Other Improbable Events, handles the offbeat news. Ponchitta, 26, is obviously learning by doing and has awkward moments, as if suddenly numbed by awareness that the staring camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newscasting: Duel at Daybreak | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

When asked how he felt about the change, Bill said, "I really enjoy playing short now. I was apprehensive about the position at first, but Coach Park has helped me to learn the fundamentals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kelley and Dorwart Add Depth to Harvard Nine | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

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