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...immediate intolerance does not threaten the radical sociologists, the general problem of working in a traditional university does. Radical sociologists say that Harvard trains its students to function as productive members of capitalist society, that it inculcates a bourgeois ideology, and that the hierarchical relationships in the university and the classroom reflect the hierarchy of capitalist society...

Author: By James I. Kaplan, | Title: Faculty Radicals | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...many elections a burning issue, seemed barely to touch voter consciousness this time out. Four former P.O.W.s who ran for office each met with defeat. South Dakota Republican Leo K. Thorsness, a Medal of Honor holder who spent six years in a North Vietnamese P.O.W. camp, seemed to threaten Senator George McGovern at the outset, but faded as the campaign wore on. In California, 32-year-old Republican David Rehmann, six years a P.O.W., lost his bid for Congress to Santa Ana Mayor Jerry Patterson. In Georgia, Republican Quincy Collins, 43, an ex-Air Force colonel and a seven-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRENDS: Campaign Oddments | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...titled "Ego Confession." "I want to be known as the most brilliant man on earth," said Ginsberg, "who overthrew the CIA with silent thought ... who sang of blues that made rock stars weep and moved old black guitarists to laughter in Memphis ... who could call the Justice Department and threaten to blow the whistle ... who wasn't afraid of God or death after his 48th year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 18, 1974 | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...long lines at the gasoline stations are gone, and American homes will probably be warm and snug this winter. But high oil prices remain, and they threaten to knock the world off its axis. They greatly fuel the rocketing rate of inflation in most nations. They stunt economic growth almost everywhere. They compound balance of payment woes-Italy totters on the brink of bankruptcy-and thus threaten international trade, the lifeblood of an interdependent world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Some Steps to Stop Oil Blackmail | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...ostensibly protects defendants' rights, can suppress news about shoddy courtroom tactics. Agreeing to silence in one case can also encourage demands for noncoverage of other sensitive proceedings. Pennsylvania has a rule that empowers judges to order restrictions on news coverage of sensational trials. But Buckingham did not threaten to issue such an order, which itself could have been challenged in a higher court. One alternative-a change of venue for the second trial-was not requested. The judge did not even close the courtroom to the public; indeed, hundreds of spectators were present at one time or another, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: York's Strange Silence | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

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