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...memorandum includes other suggestions that are more tenuous, and therefore more difficult for the Administration to act on so specifically. The President should "increase his exposure" to representatives of both the black and the academic communities. He should "take initiatives welcoming young people into political and governmental processes." He should try to grasp why the blacks and the young fear repression; justified or not, that fear is a political reality with which he must deal. And the President should "use the moral influence of his office in new ways designed to reduce racial tensions and help develop a climate...
...between good ideas and bad, and only a very frightened man loses the ability to differentiate. Finally Pusey is probably right. We no longer respect his Pantheon of rationalism above human life. And so we are threatening to bring down his tower, built, as he admits, upon the most tenuous of foundations. We believe that we are fighting for a better world. Objective proof of that must await the judgment of history. But on what we can understand here and now (and we must always make our decisions on that information alone) we believe that we are rejecting elitist dream...
...with indefatigable lucidity through the irresistible ebb and flow of his periodic prose, as profoundly melancholy man with a resilient and charitable sense of humor much like Chekhov's. Johnson believed that the miseries of disappointment would always exceed the joys of happiness; that human self-confidence is pathetically tenuous; that man loses himself in schemes of felicity; that the artifices of self-deceit are the primary disease of the human imagination; that fancy is volatile and tyrannical, happiness elusive if not unobtainable. His counsel is to live with gentle self-forgetfulness and honest circumspection, to expose vanity...
...chilly, insistent wind forced the matches from Harvard's soft outdoor clay courts to the harder surface of the Palmer Dixon indoor facility, and almost immediately. the Midshipmen were at a disadvantage. Unused to the sometimes tenuous footing, several of the Navy singles players found themselves behind early, and authoritative Crimson volleys never let them come back...
Talk about unpopularity. Rhodesia proclaimed itself a republic two weeks ago, severing its last tenuous links with Britain. Yet by the end of last week not a single country had accorded diplomatic recognition to the newborn. Worse yet, one nation after another began closing its consulate in Salisbury, the capital...