Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Emmerich states that "several representatives wanted to present a resolution criticizing the...Kennedy School...for naming a library after...Engelhard." No final resolution had been drawn up in advance. I was still speaking to representatives individually when someone made the motion to recess. I had wanted to sound out representatives' opinions first, so that we could avoid a divisive trial vote. Unfortunately, The Crimson article gives just this misleading impression of the vote...
Second, Mr. Curtis was not the only representative who wanted the assembly to consider the Engelhard issue before the Saturday demonstration. Perhaps Mr. Curtis only wanted to sound out the assembly's views, but other representatives wanted a definite vote, and were angered by the Assembly's decision to delay consideration of the issue. Finally, while Engelhard may not have officially represented the South African government, he was adviser, consultant and lobbyist for the government, and therefore the issue is at least indirectly "an issue concerning Harvard's ties to the South African government...
Forgetting the last war and pretending that Vietnam does not exist cannot lessen U.S. responsibility for the devastation it wrought there. The U.S. has a moral duty and sound pragmatic reasons for participating in the development of an economically rebuilt Vietnam. After all, the U.S. very nearly succeeded in simulating lunar conditions in Vietnam. Carter claimed last year that "the destruction was mutual (and that) we ought not to assume the status of culpability." This position is patently absurd in light of the destruction inflicted on both North and South...
When Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger arrived in China last week for a fortnight's tour of oilfields and industrial centers, he was the fourth high-level member of the Carter Administration to visit a nation that the U.S. does not formally recognize. Schlesinger was hoping to sound out Chinese leaders on ways to end that anomaly. Jimmy Carter would like to recognize the Peking regime, preferably before the 1980 presidential campaign gets fully under way, but the effort involves major diplomatic difficulties, and it may provoke a political storm in the U.S. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott...
...IRCAM working with scientists on Arcus. Says he: "You are a different composer after you have absorbed all this." Some observers think that IRCAM may sponsor too much adventure. Says Composer Otto Luening of the Columbia" Princeton Electronic Music Center: "It is fine to explore outer space in sound. But I ask, what will you bring back...