Word: understand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to understand how a moose thinks. You can't tell a moose to change his habits...
Suspending the five Paine demonstrators who were on probation last year for sitting in at Mallinckrodt would have been a disastrous error. It is hard to understand how even eight of the fifteen voting members of the Ad Board could have backed this proposal; the only rationale given for drastically increasing a student's punishment because of his past record in political demonstrations was a filmsy analogy to criminal law. And a piece of harsh disciplinary action backed by neither reason or precedent is just the sort of spark that could set off a paralyzing protest at Harvard...
...suits and the slicked-back hair told us: "You can learn a lot of things from the flowers/Especially in the month of May." And Bambi and Sleeping Beauty and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Disney always managed to squeeze out all the incongruities, anything that he could not understand. Then, distilled, it would be fed into the machine that made Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and their gloves--and, behold, the result is a product, as nourishing as frozen corn...
...tactic other than the rashness and immaturity of students. One might consider that there can never be an excuse for violence. But I think there is an explanation. I feel that there are important reasons why students approach change violently. If the Ad Board, administration, and faculty attempt to understand the fact that many students feel that change will only be produced by violence and attempt to discover why students feel that way, the Paine sit-in will be put in its proper perspective...
...been a good man, although I'm a poor man-understand...