Word: sure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, University procedures that define public policy are creaky and will change only under pressure. But three points must be made. One, there have been improvements since last year; the intelligent and sophisticate contribution of student representatives in many areas of policy was creating precisely the kind of pressure most likely to convince the Faculty not merely of the need but of the advantages of further and faster movement. Coercive pressure of the kind of represented by the sit-in is most likely to backfire, for there is quite a difference between ordinary pressure, and an actual threat. Two, that...
...sure, one does not cure fanaticism by disciplinary punishment; it is much better to underline the pathetic futility of the sit-in than to bloat its importance by turning bunglers into martyrs, who could then receive at last the sympathy and support of the bulk of the students, and whose sense of being the victims of Faculty and Administration repressiveness would then be vindicated. The escalation of bitter confrontation is in nobody's interest. What happened here was not at all of the same order of magnitude as what was done by others at Berkeley of Columbia. Here, there...
...Sure, the guy pretends to put characters in. You've got your usual two, maybe four-five, hippy-type guys climbing into your old car and going off to a beach. To groove, you know, To screw around, scream we're free! to rocks and sand. You've got your passing array of loonies, the guys who carry around pomegranates and sleep with logs. The guy who counts all the punctuation marks ("the rivets") in Ecclesiastes. So you say "they got no depth," right? You say there's no plot, right? You didn't get the Civil War bits mixed...
...still not sure why Hammett is so much more popular in Europe than in his own country. Perhaps it is that Hammett, like rock and roll and juke boxes, Ford Galaxies and Johnnie Guitar, is something we assume but never really stop to appreciate...
...Farnsworth explained that he "couldn't say for sure" whether he made these comments, but he added that the statement attributed to him does have "some semblance of reality." He said that he definitely has not sent out any memorandum containing such a request...