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After three days of mixing thinking and drinking, Physiologist Greenberg summed up the symposium consensus: "Alcohol is the safest, most available tranquilizer we have...
...regularly devotes space to "the student movement," but unlike the New Yorker's Talk of the Town, the gossip of the left losses its freshness. Beginning a symposium on the student community, Herbert Mills, a former vice-chairman of SLATE at the University of California, says little that Otto Feinstein didn't say better in the previous issue. Mills discusses the oft-made point that contemporary student protests are moral rather than political. He reasons that the student regards himself as a political "out," and is thus forced to couch his comment in a radical, demonstrative yet non-political...
Phillip Altbach, national chairman of the Student Peace Union continues the symposium on the student movement with a piece that says nothing at all. Well, perhaps that is unfair to Mr. Altbach, who manages to use the word commit(ment) five times in three paragraphs, and urges student leaders to be sly because they are ultimately dependent on adults for respectability, money, co-operation and support...
...only just learned this fact, the U.S. has implicitly accepted it for a long time. For many Americans, this decision may be merely emotional or instinctive. But behind the emotions and the instinct lies a carefully reasoned moral case. That case is set out with great clarity in a symposium of some leading Western intellectuals published by the monthly Commentary. The debaters do not specifically deal with Berlin but with the basic question: Can Western civilization use the horrible weapons of thermonuclear war to save itself, or would such a war destroy the very things the West stands...
Later, three foreigners will discuss "Does the West Need an Ideology?" In the symposium will be Miguel Barnad, professor at Ateneo de Manila; Uwe Johnson, German author; and Aryeh Simon, of the Israel Ministry of Education and Culture...