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...lines from the copper plate with which he printed. According to the catalogue, alteration of this plate constitutes a change of "state" in the print. But within each state the artist experimented with ink and paper tone. Rembrandt often printed an image on particularly dark or absorbent paper to soften the black lines. Sometimes by wiping the ink off the plate before printing, he let light from the surface of the paper glow through the network of lines. Intricate juxtaposition of black and white makes the billowing robe of a priest glitter as though it were done in black...
...here at Harvard can afford to ignore this kind of intellectual and moral atrocity in these times. Too much is at stake, and too many are ready to interpret silence as tacit sanction. The effect, if not the aim, of Mr. Hyland's writing is to soften up his readers for other assaults on the minds and freedoms of this community...
...with the CRIMSON: whatever we read now, people will sigh and say, it's not so bad as that Hyland piece; and they will entertain suggestions and swallow lies and toy with fantasies that will soften them up for the next propagandistic outrage. (And no doubt the CRIMSON will tell its readers, as in the Editor's letter of October 7, that the Supplement does not present an "official" view; that there is no "censorship" and "barely any guidance" over the pieces that appear in these pages: and that writers can say what they want there, "free of the sometimes...
Some of those people manage to send the kid away in a hurry, often with truly marvelous excuses, but sometimes the vestiges of civility in our culture soften them up enough that they listen past the "is she in?" Sometimes they listen far enough to hear that they can get a set of Collier's Encyclopedia for free, and then, sometimes, their cars perk...
...country and prompt a "Fortress America" spirit of isolationism. That prospect worries the non-Communist nations of Asia more than lingering "domino" fears. It is a moot question whether discord and bitterness over withdrawal would be greater than over continued war?and what true presidential leadership could do to soften the inevitable shocks of either course...