Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dedicated faculty is the prime bulwark of the free-speaking open-minded university. Their free pursuit of knowledge is under virtually perpetual challenge: from alumni, from patriotic citizens, from demanding donors, and now from students and the CRIMSON. It is not worthy of you to ask for more control of the Faculty than you would concede to alumni or the government. Your stake in the defense of scholarship against the pressure to serve any cause or interest whatsoever is as great as the Faculty's stake; after all, we have had our university training, yours is still in progress...
...last Saturday night of the fall trimester. A lamb was taken whole out of the fireplace (still a little bloody) and afterwards there was dancing or watching-dancing from the beams on which so many people had stretched out. Before I left Cambridge, I had been told, "If you speak with someone at Antioch for five minutes, it is assumed you will sleep with him." This had caused a moment of uneasiness about going to visit a cousin of mine there, but he was a good guide. I asked him about the intimacy I felt at the Feast...
...none. One of the major questions that developed as we placed items on the docket was what role students' opinions would play. Under the present system, there is no mechanism for students to place their views on the floor." Wilcox said that he will not speak for or against the HUC position, but will merely introduce...
...ties weakened by De Gaulle. Significantly, his 1969 agenda tentatively includes trips to the U.S., Mexico and Canada, as well as tours of the French provinces to discuss domestic problems. His next major venture: a February appearance in Geneva where, for the benefit of a French audience, he will speak on "The Future of France...
Rhetorical Blight. Conservative William F. Buckley, who likes Nixon but loves style, delivered a toast in acid. To him, "the striking passages of his address had to do with the human spirit. These passages he could speak feelingly because he is the primary American exemplar of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. The astronauts never had such dark and lonely moments as Nixon had, and out of that experience he fashioned a philosophy which is essentially hopeful." Still, he found banal passages: "We are going to turn our swords into plowshares yes yes yes." Buckley also detected...