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With regard to some of the more thoughtless commentary of the earlier letters, the writers may be interested to know that Harvard students recommended both of these guests to the Foundation as outstanding figures in sports and music who deserved recognition. This recognitions was accorded in the same spirit as that given to similar public figures by other Ivy League schools (Yale's sports honoree this year was Arthur Ashe) and Harvard groups like Hasty Pudding, Ferguson, Gordon, Gooding, and Cardwell should remember that Hasty Pudding is predominantly white group that mostly recognizes white artists. Such recognition is highly valued...
...that he refuses to let Shakespeare's be heard. He mashes the meter and minces a large portion of the play's enchantment in the Cuisinart of his ego. It is a measure of the play's richness that some of its sweet essence survives such thoughtless processing...
Suppose I should forget, grow thoughtless--What if the little words came back, Running in upon me, running back Like little children home from school? Suppose I spoke--oh, I don't know--Some vagabond phrase out of the summer! What if I said 'I love you'? Something as simple...
...implicit assumption that persons without college educations are inferior and little more than a necessary nuisance to people like Mr. Mazumdar. American liberalism has a strong connection with education and intellectualism, a connection that often breeds a blind arrogance and goes far to defeat its preached tenets. The thoughtless self-indulgence of Mr. Mazumdar's foolish editorial is exactly the sort of thing one hopes not to find in persons as loftily educated as he seems to assume himself to be. "Learning Class Zero?" Paul D. Erickson GSAS
...Democratic Club made no attempt to determine the true nature of the demonstration beforehand, preferring instead a mercenary and uninformed attempt to gain publicity. This thoughtless action was alienating to many on campus, insulting to the rally's organizers, and hear-rending to the many Cubans in attendance. It is hard to believe that the Harvard Democrats are the ideological heirs of John F. Kennedy, for they are a disgrace to the cause of freedom he championed. Mark A. Sauter...