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...clear on the grounds for its necessity. The best way to get a grip on this is to look at the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. What the history of the CRR and of student discipline at Harvard-Radcliffe in recent years shows us, above all, is the utter untruth of the myth that this University is a community of different people with a common interest-such as "the pursuit of truth." All the administration's and Faculty's efforts to punish students for political action have been founded on the premise of "academic community." The Faculty Resolution on Rights...
Laslo Benedek's methodical direction and Henning Kristiansen's astonishing photography-a gothic mix of melancholy blue landscapes and pale, crumbling interiors-only serve to underline the film's deficiency, the utter lack of logic. Random composition is all very well in contemporary art; in the traditional thriller, it is an unwanted and fatal guest...
...city, its palimpsest of styles and periods-as in the masterly View of Santa Maria Maggiore, with its jostle of medieval tower, 16th century facades and Baroque dome. He spurned atmospheric effects (even a puff of smoke, he once remarked, should be done with a line) in favor of utter concreteness. The most-quoted remark Ingres ever made was that "drawing is the probity...
Remembering his trips to Biafra in 1968, Dr. Mayer says, "There is invariably utter chaos in relief operations. Although a disaster strikes at least once every year, the relief organization in each case is dealing with tragedy for the first time. Political complications hamper American Red Cross operations, and the International Red Cross, which is a Swiss organization, is not equipped to provide massive aid. The Pakistani government," he says, "is the greatest ob-stacle to the East Pakistan relief operations. The United States, even if it wants to, can not send massive relief for political reasons. Reading between...
...reaction of Jewish faculty, students, and alumni at Harvard was, of course, one of utter horror. But he had not only alienated the Jewish community. Paradoxically, his actions in the Memorial Church Crisis caused a permanent rift between him and exactly the one constituency he needed to establish a viable control over the university-the old WASP families which hold the balance of power in the university...