Word: various
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aware of the concerns of the black students at Harvard. Their special interests are now being considered by the various faculties. We share the faculties concern and hope they will speedily find appropriate ways to meet the special interests of these students. However, we do not feel it would be appropriate for us to anticipate the actions of the faculties on these matters...
...passages in the book, a critique of the American fightingman. Eliot Roseater, of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater fame, shares a mental hospital ward and his favorite author with Pilgrim. Ilium, N.Y., hometown of Cat's Cradle and Player Piano, makes its third appearance in that role. And, finally, various progeny and siblings of Winston Niles Rumford, co-star of The Sirens of Titan, motorboat past Billy Pilgrim's bedroom window on his wedding night...
...constitutional democracies. Most Asian countries have a long way to go to achieve these goals, but giving way to step in the wrong direction. Malaysia, which has a continuing problem with Communist guerillas on a small scale, is now having its national parliamentary election campaign. In this campaign the various opposition parties are freely campaigning for votes and publishing very strong criticisms of the present government. There is no indication that anything like this will happen in any Communist country in the foreseeable future...
There is, of course, criticism of various aspects of U.S. policy and concern for the suffering of the Vietnamese. But the many Asians who are interested in democracy do not want the U.S. to "just get out" on totalitarian terms, student agitators notwithstanding. William C. Parker Jr. '62 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
...Harvard students finally had the courage to show their fellows that the tweed of Harvard administrators and history professors, the blues of racist city police, the khaki fatigues of American soldiers in Vietnam, and the green eye-shades of New York Times editors, are all but the various uniforms of flunkies for the same man (or has it become an uncontrollable machine?). I sang "With the Crimson in Triumph Flashing" on the exercise yard today. James R. Wessner #17837 Federal Youth Center Ashland, Kentucky