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Mean Northeasterners. Recalling stereotypical apologies for the Ole South, Russell Baker admitted that it is "true, as the Nixon Republicans assert, that the Northeast is not representative of the U.S." But "even the meanest Northeasterner has nothing against the conservative who knows his place. Many Northeasterners, in fact, grew up in the care of conservative mammies. Many also had conservative daddies." What's more, he added, we "eat at the same table with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Spoofing Spiro | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...steel it might honor the warmly colored texture of Back Bay. Finally, there's no reason for it to be a 60-story monolith-land isn't all that scarce in Boston. Of course, excessive height and strikingly in human scale are an asset to a commercial building. They assert that it is the most important, the biggest and the best, even while it draws bigger traffic jams...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: Back Bay The City as Art | 11/25/1969 | See Source »

Then there is the matter of truth. They assert that the CRIMSON's position was "an offense to a community of truth-seekers." This apparently constitutes a singlehanded claim to "truth" and the banishment of the CRIMSON editorial board to obscurity. But it seems to me that, while not necessarily agreeing with the CRIMSON stand, there is unquestionably a moral and scholarly basis for agreement. The U. S. Army has presumably been fighting more than ghosts for seven years, and the goals and motivation of the forces that have withstood that onslaught, the National Liberation Front, are at least worthy...

Author: By Regional STUDIESEAST Asia and Jon LIVINGSTON M. a., S | Title: ASIAN EXPERTS? | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

Neither team could assert itself in the first half. A moderate breeze had little effect on play, as both teams penetrated regularly when playing into the wind. The Yardlings were unable to control the middle for the first time this year due to the heights of Dartmouth's defensive backs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Booters Take First Loss | 10/27/1969 | See Source »

...likely to damage the interests of students as well as the university of which they are a part. It is a shallow view of democracy to assume that every person has a right to participate equally in every decision that affects his life. To argue thus is to assert that there is no place in a democratic society for the authority derived from professionalized training, knowledge and experience. A democratic community which ignored these claims would not merely stand condemned for its obscurantism; it is unlikely that such a community could long survive...

Author: By T. S. Eliot, | Title: The Fainsod Report | 10/20/1969 | See Source »

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