Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What earthly purpose do you serve by showing our wounded or dead in such heartbreaking pictures? What consolation is this for the families who have lost men in battle? You speak about the poor taste the comedians use on television today-well, you top them all with your choice of pictures. I am wondering if some of the news media are trying to color the public's view about this...
...Council to recommend the suspension of all recruitment at Harvard until it has reached an agreement on the subject would have constituted overkill. Not to have asked for a postponement of Dow's visit and to have, so to speak, left unattended the risk of a new crisis would have prejudged the issue even more; for if the crisis occurs, the "free and unprejudiced discussion of the full range of issues now before the Council" that Professor Gill, along with the Council's members, calls for will become quite impossible. Stanley Hoffmann Professor of Government
PITIRIM A. SOROKIN, who died this weekend, made a rare public appearance at Harvard two years ago at a "Speak-Out" on the Vietnam War. Compared with the score of illustrious professors who spoke before him, Sorokin was not well known. But in spite of his age and his ill health, he overwhelmed the audience with his fervor, his intellect, and his unbending hostility to America's foreign policy...
...Council has proved not to be a radical body. If some members would privately want to see the University speak out against the War or see all War-related industries banned from recruiting, in voting on Council resolutions they seem to be guided by what Hoffmann calls prudence--a concern for taking the most responsible stand...
Organizers of the fast distributed black arm bands at the meeting. Blum said this was not to separate fasters, but to encourage them to speak to non-fasters about anti-war work...