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...Gourvevitch-Roberts letter (also 24 April) at least attempts to confront the question of political responsibility. However the solution that the authors suggest, that of radically separating political action outside the University and action within the University, is unsatisfactory. Under this scheme, the academic policymaker would return to the University. When the "public authorities" sought to investigate his actions while a policymaker, one can be sure that the Government Department would once again issue a statement, condemning the investigation as a violation of academic freedom. The academic mandarin would escape all responsibility, as he has in the past. The Gourvevitch...
...North Vietnamese and NLF have superior organization, superior communication, superior morale, and they are fighting for an objectively better cause. Their cause should be our cause, their morale our morale, their victory our victory. But victory only comes through struggle. We must dare to struggle, dare to win, confront authority, resist illegitimate authority, and persist, until we have won. None of us can afford to be good Germans...
...Carolina farmer's son, he was class of '40 at Harvard Law School, returned to his home state to set up a busy general-litigation practice, and in 1968 became one of Lyndon Johnson's last judicial appointees. Within a year, his duties forced him to confront the desegregating of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County school district. After studying the facts, Judge McMillan decided he had taken the state's black-white situation for granted all his life "without thinking through this problem...
...afternoon of Thursday, April 22, was an emotional one at Harvard. A group of SDS members, leaving University Hall after Dean Dunlop refused to talk into their tape recorder, marched to the CFIA, to confront Samuel P. Huntington, Thompson Professor of Government. When they reached the CFIA, Harvard police, alerted by walkie-talkie, had locked the building, and were guarding all the doors. The marchers separated, covering both front and back entrances. As they milled around, discussing strategy, they became aware of a towering presence in their midst. John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics and chronicler of the Affluent...
...occasions I have seen her in a part worthy of her talents. Her gawky physique and nasal delivery are perfect means for presenting the character's uneasy balance of self-assurance and paranoia. When, in the second act, one of the daughters forces her mother to confront her own horrible past. Miss Heckart reveals Beatrice's long repressed wounds with a low-keyed bitterness that is devastating...