Word: tyro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...older warriors of not having an historical sense. Perhaps, in affairs of state, too much history is a bad thing for we live in a rapidly changing world, and all that. But in affairs of Harvard, there is much to be learned by looking back, by turning your confused tyro-minds to the tested words of a century of CRIMSON editorial writers. Here, carefully selected from the past 96 Septembers, is what they have told incoming freshmen...
...There can be no innocent bystanders at a time of civil disturbance or the repression thereof. The involvement of press and television personnel is even more stupid than that of the public. The veriest Fourth Estate tyro should know that a police officer faced with an unruly mob is too busy to check his press card. The sanctimoniousness of McCarthy and Ribicoff, particularly, was too obvious. The police force in Chicago was the only thing that made it possible for McCarthy's heart to bleed in comparative privacy and for Ribicoff to speak of "police brutality" and "Gestapo tactics...
Whether gulping fresh air as a tyro mountain climber or rapids shooter, staring down hostile students in South America or frenzied crowds at home, he had only a shrug for death. He made a point of declining police protection when it was offered?as it was last week in Los Angeles?and his unofficial bodyguard went unarmed. To the crowds whose raucous adulation drew him endlessly to the brink of physical peril, he seemed to offer a choice: Raise me up with your voices and votes, or trample me with your strength...
...DOWN STAIRCASE. In this skillful culling of memorable moments from Bel Kaufman's bestselling book about a teacher's struggle in a slum high school, Sandy Dennis re-creates the tyro schoolmarm with considerable grace...
...DOWN STAIRCASE. Sandy Dennis re-creates with considerable grace the tyro schoolmarm of Bel Kaufman's bestselling novel about a "problem area" high school...