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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drove down from Quang Ngai the day before Tet in a plane filled with men who had left the barracks in Quang Ngai going home to their families in Sagion. Well, if you are expecting a major attack within a day or two, you keep your army ready and you don't let them go home on leave. This just wasn't the case. The guard at the U.S. Embassy was lighter that night than it had been for months. The gate of the U.S. Embassy was standing open. You don't have all these things open if you expect...
...give. Traditional folk singers-including the modern figure of Bob Dylan-have usually been purveyors of a musical heritage, chroniclers of their time, protesters against injustice. But today's troubadours are turning away from protest. Their gaze is shifting from the world around them to the realms within. "They are taking stock of what they are," says one folk buff, "purging themselves until they feel sensitive and pure...
...Angeles Philharmonic. His real ambition, though, was to swap his bow for a baton. He got conducting experience in the military with the Seventh Army Symphony, and later organized the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In 1961, he substituted for Igor Markevitch with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and within a few years he ranked as the outstanding Negro conductor in the U.S., though he had no orchestra...
...this year's second visit of the recruiters for Dow Chemical Company I should like to address some comments not to the students who have and presumably again will protest, but to those members of the Harvard community who chose to interpret the protests not symbolically, but literally within the legal framework of the community...
...objection to all this, hinted at parenthetically a moment ago, is that Lichtheim never offers a satisfactory account of the relation between ideas and social movements. He has an intuition of "tensions" between first-rate thoughts which beat about inside first-rate heads and the societies within which they function. "There must be some correspondence between the collective experience of a culture and the way in which this experience is generalized in thought," he remarks a trifle desparately...