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...Harvard Houses seek intimacy, the first principle they should uphold is the right of people to participate in decisions that are bound to shape their experience at Harvard. It is the one principle that should underlie all discussions on House policy this year, though one may reasonably fear that this year, as in past years, this crucial point will again be obscured...
...This spring the Supreme Court will rule on a suit that challenges de facto school segregation resulting from segregated housing patterns. In the past, non-Southern cities have escaped court orders because they were aimed at the de jure segregation of dual school systems. But should the Supreme Court uphold a Denver federal-court decision handed down in January, that ruling could affect virtually every suburban community in the nation and lead to busing on a scale far beyond anything the country has experienced...
...show much interest in his actors, using them more like props than people. In Women in Love, with good actors speaking a script derived from D.H. Lawrence's novel, Russell's direction added that overripeness that characterizes Lawrence's prose. But in The Music Lovers, with only Jackson to uphold the acting and an original script, Russell turned the whole project into a fruity joke. Instead of characters he shows embodied forces or traditions--and essence of sweetness-and-light is simply more bearable than essence of wife-of-a-homosexual...
...visit by a British Prime Minister since 1964, and was apparently designed as a morale boost for the 14,000 British troops there. "I have come to thank you," said Heath to soldiers on duty at fortified positions in Londonderry, "for your high standard of service in trying to uphold law-and-order under very difficult circumstances...
Although the majority editorial paid lip-service to intellectual freedom (e.g., "we uphold Herrnstein's right to publish his theory") in practice the editorial characterized the relationship between intellectual activity (ideas) and politics in such a manner that the former is willy nilly coincident with the latter. For example, the editorial asserts that "the boundary between ideas and actions is an academic distinction," and that "it would be a mistake to think that ideas are less dangerous than actions," Precisely the same assertion is made, though more explicitly discarding intellectual freedom, by Messrs, Baker, Levenson, and Swanson: "The issue," they...