Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: Before President Nixon becomes too upset over the trends toward neo-isolationism that he perceives in this country, maybe he should give cognizance to the fact that the Russians have won their most significant victories by encouraging their foes to overextend themselves...
...Sir: Irishmen have always had cause to be wary of Englishmen who "observe the Irish fondly." Wilfrid Sheed's Essay [June 20] typifies the paternalistic view of Ireland that Englishmen have expressed in varying degrees for more than 800 years...
...Sir: A superficial and burdensomely clever piece. "Ireland's history, or rather the lack of it"-with seven prehistoric cyclopean Duns in its Aran Islands and tumuli in the Boyne and the Blackwater valleys that can be compared with only the pyramids of the Pharaohs! Your man is daft. May God have mercy on his soul...
...Sir: With your superb article on Communism [June 13] came a box dealing with Marx and Marxism that leaves something to be desired...
...Sir: We at Harvard New College have to take issue with some of your comments, especially those about the "intellectual hierarchy that is basic to learning" [June 6]. We don't reject that intellectual hierarchy "in effect," as you said-we reject it explicitly. The intellectual hierarchy stifles creativity; it is hostile to the fresh insights of minds that have not yet been processed in America's academic distilleries. In an environment changing so quickly that textbooks become obsolescent before they are printed, the whole idea of teachers pontificating about what they "know" to passive, uncritical students...