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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to gain admission the applicant is asked, among other things, the relationship of Shakespeare to Othello, Dante to the Inferno, Brahms to music, and Whitman to poetry. He must understand such words as debutante and modiste, know that Dali is a painter and verity is the opposite of myth. Only after having established such credentials is a man judged to be qualified under the union rules to become an apprentice steam fitter in New York. In the past, the test has weeded out 66% of the nonwhite applicants and only 18% of the whites-a fairly effective method, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Union Is to Whiteness As ... | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...members of the University acquainted with the Greek regime, Harvard's willingness to entertain Sioris came as a bitter shock. The Francis Jones Professor of Greek Literature, Cedric H. Whitman, summed up the general feeling about Sioris: "He poses as an opponent of the regime, but it's impossible and ridiculous because he would not be in such a high post if he had something against them. He's a real minion of the colonels, and a hypocritical...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Freedom Sioris | 2/27/1971 | See Source »

Cedric H. Whitman, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature, said yesterday that he had phoned Cotton's office to state "my extreme disapproval and the hope that it can be cancelled...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Greek Minister to Visit Harvard Tomorrow | 2/23/1971 | See Source »

...post corresponds pretty closely to the ministry of the interior," Whitman said. "He poses as an opponent of the regime, but it's impossible and ridiculous because he would not be in such a high post if he had something against them. He's a real minion of the colonels, and a hypocritical...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Greek Minister to Visit Harvard Tomorrow | 2/23/1971 | See Source »

These are the words of Charlie Whitman, hippie lawyer from Lawrence, Kans., a 27-year-old veteran of the counterculture who has seen it all. What Whitman sees happening in Lawrence is going on all over America: the counterculture losing its primal energy, which was, back in 1967, a beautiful, frightening thing to feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling Of America: Out of Tune and Lost in the Counterculture | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

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