Word: alien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Collins was asking some important questions," Carden said yesterday, "but he had a lot of strikes against him from the start. His group was totally alien to Harvard, and its only tactic was to shout at people. There were so few of them that when nobody followed, they lost a lot of their cool...
That people could seek only the survival of their way of life, or want a revolution so limited, so circumscribed and conservative, these notions are alien to out sophisticated way of thinking...
Increasingly, students at Harvard are displaying an unnerving self-confidence in their own ability to do anything, an attitude that seems alien to the old academic virtue of modest contemplation at the foot of the savants. Celebrated professors like John Kenneth Galbraith and George Wald no longer command the ardent reverence once enjoyed by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Perry Miller and Crane Brinton, the superstars of the '50s. Explains Mike Tompkins, a junior from Paris who is both a Presidential and a National Merit Scholar: "There are many admirable men at Harvard and they are appreciated. But we have very...
...artistic integrity it is the names of Burt Bacharach and Hall David that must be put on top. Every song in their score for Promises, Promises, musically and lyrically, is faithful to the style established by the rest of their work--a kind of song-writing pretty much alien to both Broadway convention and acid-rock...
...early stages of course selection would make it unlikely that a course so out of tune with students interest as Planning 11-3b would ever get so far as a first meeting. Second, such institutions would inhibit the tendency to see course offerings as imposed by an alien body and justifiably obstructed by force. Third, and most important, the limited resources of the University would be marshalled to serve the intellectual interest of students as well as faculty. Give the highly-touted diversity of the Harvard student body, there is no reason to fear that by fulfilling this responsibility...