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...Fellows seem to have forgotten the discussion which took place during the Mass Hall takeover. We, the students and faculty concerned about Harvard's posture, took it on faith that Harvard would strive to become a responsible, morally forthright shareholder. You were credited in this newspaper with this change in the University's image. That faith has been violated, and the credit to you was premature. To request an advisory committee, thus encouraging management to take interests other than profit into account would have been a minimal step for a socially responsible shareholder; asking for simple disclosure of information...
...People must realize that the Israeli attack on the Arabs is justified by the fact that one of the Arabs' major goals is to demolish Israel. How can a country strive to survive without some means of counterattack? After all, the Arabs attacked Israel to begin with. Should such a tiny country not fight back...
SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY, 41, may well be in trouble because the Republicans will strive to produce a Mr. Clean in 1976. If they do so, the signs of moral laxity in Kennedy's past-particularly at Chappaquiddick-will count heavily against...
Most gurus teach one or another form of yoga (the Sanskrit word means a yoking, or union), practical methods by which the student can strive to unite with Brahman. The discipline that concentrates on psychophysical exercises to purify and strengthen the entire body is called hatha-yoga. Raja-yoga employs meditative exercises to focus the mind, and bhakti is the yoga of love and devotion...
...what happened in those years--on the rise of overpowering soloists like Louis Armstrong, the big-city, big-band style of Duke Ellington, the bebop innovations of Charlie Parker, even the European heritage brought in more and more by the Modern Jazz Quartet--that, while young musicians can strive toward a self-consciously primitive jazz style, they cannot duplicate the attitude and style of the working-class men who, in the first quarter of this century, played "jass" on weekends and drove trucks or laid bricks during the week...