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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thieu nipped a real coup in the bud? Or had he perhaps raised the specter of a coup to weed out men potentially dangerous to his regime? The U.S. mission dismissed the crisis as "a case of rumor feeding upon rumor." But the Americans in Saigon were troubled by the events, or nonevents, of the week. All summer, U.S. officials have been reporting home that the Vietnamese army and political climate have been improving. To make those reports stick, they have told the Vietnamese in no uncertain terms that one more coup will be the coup...
...sixth-grade class to a Black Power rally in memory of Malcolm X did not unduly alarm N.Y.U. It considered Hatchett's writings on Afro-American culture and religion sound enough to outweigh that error. But apparently no one at N.Y.U. had read a rambling, hysterical attack upon Jewish domination of the schools that Hatchett had written for the journal of the city's African-American Teachers Association. He charged that "antiblack Jews" and "their power-starved imitators, the black Anglo-Saxons" (meaning subservient, "Uncle Tom" Negroes) had inflicted "misery, degradation, racism and cultural genocide daily against...
...report contends that Columbia administrators had too often "conveyed an attitude of authoritarianism and invited distrust" of students and that the roots of unrest lay in a "deepseated dissatisfaction with Columbia life" among nonradical students and faculty. Cox concluded that "the survival of Columbia as a leading university depends upon finding ways of drawing this constructive segment of the student body back into the stream of university life...
Almost all of the eleven movies are good, short, and original. Since the film makers draw upon limited training and finances, the simpler films seem to be more successful. Two time-lapse films, one done by Derek Lamb's class and Robert Gardner's, illustrate the point. Gardner's film is of Calder directing the construction of his Great Sail at M.I.T. The movie has synchronized sound, color and a Great Man's Face--all of which Lamb's House Moving lack. But Gardner's materials are a bit out of control. He leaves Calder mumbling inaudible marvelous...
...have, for a vast majority of the tens of thousands of claimants have been wronged beyond any state's power to recompense them. Yet the slender thread of civilized existence often seems to hang upon little more than society's fragile agreement to pursue and uphold such imperfect payments and restraints as the law allows. In the process of tracing out the perplexities of just one claim, British Suspense Novelist Lionel Davidson (The Rose of Tibet, The Menorah Men) has created an odd, quiet novel that contemplates the limits of private responsibility and public guilt...