Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRESIDENT Bok said last week that his opinion on ROTC "would not be formed on the basis of a referendum." Bok, as anyone else, is entitled to choose whatever criteria he likes to judge the legitimacy, morality, or effectiveness of on-campus military training. But the Faculty, and the University, is entitled to know whether the students--the largest sector of the Harvard community--want the U.S. military to train its junior officers here...
...there are young old people who do not understand that to be a university student, for instance, is an extraordinary privilege in the enormous majority of the countries of our continent. Those young old people believe that the university has been created to train technicians and they think that they should be satisfied with merely acquiring a professional title. The degree gives them social status and boosts them on their way up the social ladder. Caramba, how terribly dangerous, the degree is, an instrument that gives them more income and better living conditions than the majority of the rest...
...City, Ariz., has drawn 28,000 residents (average age: 67) to a tract 16 miles northwest of Phoenix. It has enough athletic and recreation facilities to train an Olympic team: seven golf courses, four tennis courts, six lawn-bowling greens, a 16-lane bowling alley, Arizona's first indoor, air-conditioned shuffleboard courts, two artificial lakes and a 7,500-seat amphitheater for plays and concerts...
...people one of his poems denounced, with passion and accuracy, as the dictatorship of the flies. Neruda never claimed to inhabit a special world for poets divorced from the struggles and the suffering of ordinary people. The son of a railway worker killed in a fall from his train, Neruda lost the consulship accorded his early poems by declaring Chile opposed to facism in Spain without waiting for his government's instructions. In 1944, the nitrate miners of Antofagasta asked Neruda to run for the Chilean Senate, where he served for four years. In 1948, unwilling to refrain from criticizing...
...economic and social sphere must limit it. Freedom fighters in Africa who want to end oppression must kill oppressed Portuguese peasant-soldiers. Vietnamese revolutionaries who seek an independent Vietnam make war against some of their own countrymen. Leon Trotsky, a warm and humane man, raced around in his special train in the Soviet Civil War and ordered deserters from the Red Army shot...