Word: understands
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...communal enterprise requires work, discipline and ideology. American students tend to refuse the first two (of course, the Protestant ethic is dead) and cannot understand the third. Rebellion becomes non-cerebral, sensate, lacking the ideal of the continental student. Everybody talks at once, tries to épater la bourgeoisie with obscenities and refuses "work" courses, where reading replaces talk off the tops of many heads. McLuhan says we're postliterate anyway, so why read and write? Even hippiedom is huckstered. In short, white liberals are too busy feeling and emoting to change much of anything. Even their rebellious life...
...original plea of guilty means that his sole recourse to obtain a new trial is through a writ of habeas corpus. He told the judge that he would soon be filing such a petition. "I understand this man's a pretty fair jailhouse lawyer," Battle noted. Ray may also receive professional help. Last week he wrote to his previous defender, Arthur J. Hanes. Then Lawyer J. B. Stoner of Savannah, Ga., a lifelong anti-Negro and anti-Semitic agitator, announced that he would represent Ray in several libel suits...
From this we can see that President Thieu is extremely afraid of peace. The reason for this is easy to understand: President Thieu and others of his kind enjoy their present positions of authority and wealth only because of the abnormalities and injustices produced by the war. Once peace comes, once the abnormalities and injustices which have so far served as the stepping stones to the attainment of their power and wealth are removed, they are certain to lose their foothold. This, as far as President Thieu and his sympathizers are concerned, is comparable to physical death. To prevent peace...
...even if it can be proved that such a reallocation was being made, it is hard to understand the critical importance of the $30,000 to $50,000 saved each year by reductions in the scholarships of students on probation--particularly in view of the Committee's request for a $1.5 million budget for next year. If the scholarship Committee does indeed run a deficit, that can only mean that the Faculty should reconsider the priorities of its budget. Harvard needs to allocate much more money towards the recruitment of students from low-income families. The solution to the scholarship...
...existentially stunted that they only point to parietal rules and the lack of "intellectual conversation" as reasons for doing away with dorms. But these complaints are abstractions on the periphery; the experience itself is too overwhelming to talk about. Not until they get off campus can people really understand why some of their friends go crazy...