Word: ued
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...spring's graduation ceremonies. Some administrators are afraid that the crowd manners of the '60s are on the way back. They may be. The operative logic then, as now, was what might be called the Doctrine of Overriding Outrage. This doctrine holds that the issue at hand-U.S. policy in El Salvador, for example-is too important to be left to the flaccid (two sides to every question) processes of free speech and calm discussion. Why tolerate ideas that are so obscenely wrong? History is not high tea. As the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse wrote...
...crushed and fitted into the system that the only thing you want to do is break off and go smashing through the machinery with the hope that the other gears will come smashing with you. We are all guilty of racism and genocide. Just by living in the U. S. we are helping to maintain the status one that thirty the addresses in Vicmain. All my happinesses are probably at the depense of other's sufferings. The work is like that was it doesn't have to be I don't think...
Several national education lobbying groups with which the University is affiliated last week announced a campaign to prevent campus demonstrations which have forced controversial speakers such as U. N. Ambassador Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick to cancel addresses...
Brockman was the third hiker to die in the White Mountains since March 24. --The B. U. World...
DIED. Thomas S. Gates, 76, a patrician Philadelphian who, as Secretary of Defense in the last year of the Eisenhower Administration, overhauled Pentagon management procedures, helping prepare the way for modern weapons and tactics, and authorized the ill-fated U-2 spy-plane flight of Francis Gary Powers; after a long illness; in Philadelphia. A banker by profession, Gates was president of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. from 1962 to 1965 and chief of the U.S. mission in Peking...