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...ignore, if only out of consideration for the author. Yet I don't think any of us here at Harvard can afford to ignore this kind of intellectual and moral atrocity in these times. Too much is at stake, and too many are ready to interpret silence as tacit sanction. The effect, if not the aim, of Mr. Hyland's writing is to soften up his readers for other assaults on the minds and freedoms of this community...
...other issues raised in the Hyland-Vernon non-exchange would be to miss a fundamental point. The Center for International Affairs is not much different from most social science departments in the type of research and methodological outlook it encourages. Center research and policy advice is dominated by a tacit assumption pervasive among social scientists in general, namely that their role is to devise solutions to problems without overstepping the institutional and political confines of contemporary American society, and without violating our carbon copy image for what a good society would be like in other countries...
Atlanta has also acquired other symbols of metropolitan America: a flourishing colony of bearded and dungareed hippie youth and a visible coterie of homosexuals. Since June, police and state solicitor general's agents, with the tacit approval of the city administration and Atlanta's business community, have waged war against these so-called undesirables, treating them as the greatest threat to the city since General Sherman...
...urban landscape of supermarkets and motel rooms, of roadsides and TV commercials, a civilization in which the old-fashioned nature celebrated by old-fashioned artists has become merely a fleeting view from the window of a car, train, plane or apartment house. Thus most Pop works contain a tacit indictment of a society that allows life itself to be rolled off an assembly line: standardized, specialized, fragmented, and beautifully packaged...
...said that a convocation resolution supporting withdrawal would not violatethe "tacit agreement" because the public would be able to distinguish between an official act of the Faculty and a resolution passed by members of the Faculty...