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FIVE YEARS AGO today, Harvard students began three days of the most intense, widespread and exciting political activity the University has ever seen. Today's Crimson includes a supplement that discusses the issues involved in the Strike, but after five years that profoundly changed the temper of the times, it sometimes seems difficult to see those issues in perspective and to see what student radicalism was all about...
...yogurt? Yes and yes. Drama has a special cultural significance. "Of all genres, the drama is by its nature most immediately sensitive to changes in response, since its offerings are constantly (and financially) tested by audiences: there must be uninterrupted mass appeal...plays register changes in the public temper more quickly, more openly...than do private forms," wrote Eric Rothstein in Restoration Tragedy. Drama is a symptom and a symbol of a community turned toward reality or away from it. "Humankind cannot bear very much reality," wrote T.S. Eliot, but neither, one might add, can it afford to have...
...population that stands at 36 million and increases by 750,000 more every year. For the past year, he has been both President and Premier, but he is now ready to relinquish the premiership as part of a broad move to a peacetime economy. His aim is to temper Arab socialism with more Western-style free enterprise...
...energy czar has a quick temper, and aides dread being chewed out by him. But the storms almost always blow over and are swiftly forgotten. Simon has a sense of humor, too. When his patron Shultz once angrily told the press that White House Aide Melvin Laird should "keep his cotton-picking hands" off tax matters, Simon sent Laird a pair of white gloves...
That combative instinct, which enabled Sirica to rise to his greatest courtroom challenge, has marked much of his career. Combined with a handy temper, it has also led him to be reversed on appeal more often than most judges on the average, and has brought protests from civil libertarians. Late in 1972, for example, he jailed the Los Angeles Times's Washington bureau chief, John Lawrence, for contempt of court when the newsman failed to produce tape recordings of a Watergate-related interview (the appeals court promptly freed Lawrence). Although sensitive about criticism, Sirica reacts typically by fighting back...