Word: yet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...based distortion tendencies, which have sometimes helped cause disastrous wars of miscalculation. And I have been trying, with the expectation of at best modest success, to get students in my courses to use Cambridge Project monies to develop and use social science resources relevant to the achieving of humane, yet profound social, political, and economic revolution...
...hands of another writer the plot of Sons of Darkness could have easily have fallen prey to sensationalism. But Williams always keeps his per-spective. Although some of the characters are not fully developed. we are always aware of their humanity: Hod a killer yet a gentle man of principle; the Don. who takes a special interest in Browning in part because of a long-ago romance; Val. Browning's wife. who wears her hair au naturel. but who, like Browning. is firmly in the middle class: even Carrigan, the cop. who, furstrated with his job and marriage takes...
...Yet for all its strengths, the novel also has its faults. Its ending, for instance. leaves one vaguely disappointed. Everything ends too well for the central characters. Browning, the Don. and Hod all emerge unscathed by the events of the book-as if. after The Man Who Cried I Am, Williams wanted to write a book that would end happily, or at least, not tragically. At the novel's end, the domestic scene is still exploding and another perhaps final international war (the United States versus China) is imminent: but the central characters have been removed from the scene...
...humanity of our views in this community translated into policies and practices? The humanity I refer to here is yet an unexamined idea in this little essay. The word humane is to be found in a great deal of liberal talk. It seems in a bland definition that one is kind and considerate, and, of course, that is not enough. And this definition certainly does not reflect the new sensibility to which I referred. The way one must "come on" nowadays to be "with it" is a style that is more crazy than the liberal way would have...
Tufts University will remain open, with individual faculty members free to cancel classes if they make up the lost time. Boston College announced yesterday that its faculty members will be expected to teach during the Moratorium. M. I. T. and B. U. have not yet decided on a policy regarding the Moratorium