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...Affairs is engaged in "complicity with our nefarious Government." It is clear, he said, that "the old McCarthy technique is at work again, but this time-it is a sorrow to have to acknowledge it-by our own, and in our midst." Pusey urged his graduates to "refuse to succumb to cynicism or hopelessness. It is a long way around," he said, "but it is the civilized way, and the only way for those who have come truly to understand the role of humane learning...
...conflict is also at the heart of will-and the only way to give it exercise. It is easier to do than to be, easier to think than to feel, easier to succumb to apathy than to take a stand. "Human will begins in a 'no.' " he writes. "The 'no' is a protest against a world we never made, and it is also an assertion of one's self in the endeavor to remold and reform the world." Elsewhere he has said: "I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point...
...time when the impulses of surrealism were everywhere enacting a loud rage against aesthetics, insulting whatever vestiges were left of art, the temptation must have been to succumb or to fall silent. What poets like Popa proposed was no less than a program of animalism, in which the landscape moves as if it were an animal, in which what is most alive is the articulation of non-human speech...
Would Columbia University succumb to anarchy? The question was real enough in the tumultuous spring of 1968 after the student rebellion had paralyzed the Morningside Heights campus. The situation called for a skilled negotiator, a man expert at the resolution of conflicts. Such a man emerged from the law-school faculty. Overnight, Professor Michael I. Severn, 36, found himself struggling to reunite and reform the badly shaken university. Last week the trustees rewarded Severn's largely successful efforts by naming him to succeed William C. Warren as dean of Columbia Law School...
...purify the American language by demanding that there be a closer correlation between the meaning of words and reality, between ideal and conduct, our assertions and our actions. Without the black American, something irrepressibly hopeful and creative would go out of the American spirit, and the nation might well succumb to the moral slobbism that has ever threatened its existence from within...