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...International League. The Metropolitan Opera Company no longer visits the city, because officials refused to integrate the municipal auditorium. Parks were shut down last year, because officials would not integrate them after a court order. Unquestionably, Birmingham was the toughest segregation town in the South, from the Negroes' viewpoint. And it was symbolized by Public Safety Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, who had cowed Negroes for 23 years with hoarse threats and club-swinging cops. It was against Connor's Birmingham that King began secretly recruiting volunteers just before last Christmas. King and Connor clashed headon. The commissioner...
There was an important qualification in the committee's viewpoint. It agreed with the need for an immediate tax cut, suggested $10 billion as a figure v. Kennedy's $13.6 billion. Unlike the President, its organizers opposed the tax reforms that the Administration hopes will bring in $3.3 billion in new revenue. Meeting the new committee's members at the White House, President Kennedy took note of the difference. At the same time, said he, there was "a substantial area of commonly held views which is far more significant than the area of difference...
From Harvard's viewpoint, of course, this is fortunate. The development that the Planning Board proposes would change the character not only of Eliot and Kirkland Houses but of the whole University. Since the City Council has shown no interest in discussing the Board's report, there is a healthy chance that it will not be approved...
About half the members of the Harvard Philosophy Department subscribe to the viewpoint of linguistic analysis. Almost all the others may be described as analysis itself, but the term "analysis", as applied at Harvard, has a special implication; it implies that since only certain technical questions are appropriate for analytic treatment, only these questions can seriously be considered. For example, a typical Harvard philosophy professor would consider it quite proper to analyze Wittgenstein's notion of "criteria"" for use of words but he would not find it proper to analyze Sartre's use of the word "freedom." The various areas...
...eminence of 100-group courses, as they are now constituted, seems to be one of he reasons why instructors treat course material from a technical viewpoint. These courses are meant for both undergraduates and graduate students. But in the great majority of cases, the subject-matter of a 100-group course is not meant for both groups, but rather is chosen primarily to aid the graduate student attain a technical mastery of the discipline...