Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although the outrages you report of the Philadelphia penal system [Sept. 20] are by no means unusual, there is clearly enough cruelty involved to "spring" many prisoners under the Eighth Amendment which guarantees no cruel or unusual punishment. What I cannot understand is that the legal profession with its intellect and the A.C.L.U. with its moral superiority do not seem to have found any test case...
...perception that radical ideas are not fully or articulately represented in the current Harvard curriculum. We feel this is wrong, and in part this course is meant to alter (or mitigate) this imbalance. We believe that it is crucial for students to understand and confront radical ideas about American society in any case, but because we consider ourselves radicals, we feel that when they do understand these ideas, they will see their validity...
...Communist Party and with one's parents--all in one remark!), your attempt to stigmatize a particular set of political beliefs, and your misrepresentation of the sources of student discontent at Harvard set an ugly tone in which to further academic pursuits and hardly indicate a willingness to understand or cooperate with students in making necessary changes in this institution...
Whoever wishes to understand students discontent would be much better advised to look into conditions at Harvard (your own responsibility), and conditions in this country as a whole, rather than the heritage of any particular group of students...
...serious and it's not serious." You understand? Of course. This kind of consciousness has produced a lot of the art of our time, playful art as I have called it. It includes Camp to start with though it is greater than Camp. It includes Pop Art. ("Why that looks like a picture of a soup can, Karen." "Well it is a picture of a soup can." "Oh.") But it is greater than Pop Art. Richard Lester is in the tradition. Bob Dylan is part of it; the Bob Dylan that Joan Baez called the Dada King. (Everybody Must...