Word: showing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The really big show goes West to give the once-over to Las Vegas' new entertainment center, Circus Circus...
...rather well in school, even in Dean Ford's terms. We make the Dean's List, win fellowships, go on to graduate school, and even write books. But it is really not crucial to try to do sociological studies (though people like Kenneth Keniston are doing them) to show that radical students, in fact, are as smart as other students...
...quite simple to show your loyalty to the liberal version of civil rights: all you have do is to declare your opposition to SDS--or its tactics. But how do you propose to demonstrate you are against the war? Did you sign a petition? March for a SANE nuclear policy? Support McCarthy? I don't pretend to have complete answers for these dilemmas, nor do I claim that it is impossible to care simultaneously for the rights of Dow Chemical and the rights of burned babies. I do claim it is damned difficult...
Furthermore, if you don't believe it is difficult--indeed if you don't care enough to show that it is difficult for you--there will be a price to pay. For nothing nourishes nihilism on the left more than the faithlessness of liberals to their own values. If those worn inflexible responses are all you have to back up your values, if that is your liberal university, then we may as well tear the place down. For in that case your language is the valueless language of S.I. Hayakawa (lately active at San Francisco State), and your future...
...over is by no means trivial. At least as many of Harvard's disorders are caused by failure of the Faculty to use powers informally delegated to them as by any inadequacies of the Corporation. It is perhaps inevitable that almost never as many as half the eligible voters show up for a Faculty meeting, and that most of the work is done by the far smaller group that serves on ad hoc and standing committees. Still, students can legitimately be dismayed at events like the December Faculty meeting at which it was clear, according to several observers, that most...