Word: speak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Albert Shanker, president of New York's United Federation of Teachers, will speak on "The Public School Crisis" tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Lowell Lec. at a meeting sponsored by YPSL. Admission is free to YPSL members, $1 to others...
John K. Fairbank, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, will speak on Chairman Mao and his meaning for the United States at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland Junior Common Room...
Seferiades explained in last week's statement that "for some months I have felt within me and around me that more and more it is becoming imperative for me to speak out on our present situation. It is almost two years since a regime was imposed upon us utterly contrary to the ideals for which our world-and so magnificently our people-fought in the last world war. It is a state of enforced torpor in which all the intellectual values that we have succeeded, with toil and effort, in keeping alive are being submerged in a swamp...
...pray to God that never again may I find myself under such compulsion to speak," said Seferiades, who then sent copies of his protest to Greek newspapers. Boxed in by censorship, no editor printed it. Knowing the message would nonetheless surely reach the outside world, the government issued a 500-word countercharge notable only for its ineptness. Quoting "authoritative circles in Athens," the statement, issued in English as was Seferiades' own message, accused Seferiades of being a Communist agent. It also suggested that he had spoken "to counterbalance and neutralize the inexorable law of wear and tear and oblivion...
...never showed. He was an epileptic subject to almost daily seizures, a syphilitic and a homosexual. The Victorian world provided no palliative drugs to mitigate his diseases. Homosexuality had not yet achieved the modern status as a Third Sex International. It was still the love that dared not speak its name. A succession of handsome, brilliant boys haunted his imagination and became recipients of the best of his wonderfully funny letters; those who stirred his hopeless love were unaware of the nature of his affection (only crossed-out but still intelligible passages in his private diaries betrayed the truth...