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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he begins to speak of the war itself, its past, its future, McGuire uses phrases which seem slightly trite on paper, but which are probably just the honest opinions of an Irishman who has been around a bit. "It's just like any other war," he says, "they never solve anything, it never does any good." The war's origin is simple, he feels: "the Ibos were right to secede. They're smart, the smartest in Africa, they have all the doctors and lawyers." Though the origin of the war is tribal, its continuation may be due to intervention...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Conversation in a L. I. Bar With a Soldier of Fortune | 10/15/1968 | See Source »

...York Times reported yesterday--and the Columbia Daily Spectator confirmed--that Cleaver was slated to speak at Columbia at 4 p.m. An editor of the Spectator said that, as far as he knew, Cleaver would be at Columbia as planned. Neither Cleaver nor his secretary was available for comment yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cleaver Lecture Is Still in Doubt | 10/14/1968 | See Source »

Twice before this year, Cleaver has cancelled plans to speak at Harvard at the last minute. If he does appear this time, he will lecture to students in Soc Rel 148, and also Social Sciences 5--"The Afro-American Experience." The lecture will be open to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cleaver Lecture Is Still in Doubt | 10/14/1968 | See Source »

...chaos Vellucci is on his feet for the first time, moving toward the microphones twenty feet to his right. Before he is anywhere near it he raises his right arm yelling, "Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman, there is something that I would like to say here," and begins to speak...

Author: By George Hall, | Title: Al Vellucci: The Politics of Disguise | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

Moliere's play conforms strictly to the dramatic conventions of his time. The action takes place at one point in time, in the same place, in five acts. The protagonists speak in rhymed iambic pentameter throughout. Within these limitations Moliere, assisted by Le Treteau de Paris, has managed to create at the Loeb a comedy, which is at the same time so disturbing that, as Stendahl put it, we dare not always laugh...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Tartuffe | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

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