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Many students drop out when they find the work they confront is neither research nor policymaking. Sometimes those who remain waste their efforts. On Long Island, students helped Harvey Sherman, a peace candidate, win a Democratic congressional nomination, but they face certain disappointment in November in the habitually Republican district. In a Cambridge, Mass., convention on June 28, more than 700 young people turned out to hear congressional candidates and make endorsements, eschewing a fine summer day and a free performance by the cast of Hair less than a mile away. Yet they were clearly bored by a peace candidate...
...those extraordinary canvases, Music and the two versions of Dance. Brilliantly, Schneider has hung the three huge paintings, two from Leningrad's Hermitage and the first version of Dance from New York's Museum of Modern Art, in the same hall. There the two rings of dancers confront each other in demonic energy, while between them, on the saturated flat green of the grass, under the deep blue of the sky, five vermilion figures are frozen with the concentration of listening and playing...
...first dip in eight months-but the decline occurred almost entirely among adult women. The jobless rate among blacks rose from 8% to 8.7%; among black youths the rate is now 34%. Thus when Nixon's commission holds its first meeting later this month, its 23 members will confront a troublesome thicket of economic difficulties...
CHOOSING between country and conscience also poses not-so-obvious ambiguities. A citizen may confront the country as state, transcendent political community, the federal government, an electoral majority, or simply as the Administration. One can see such confusion in college dissenters trying to separate America from her great silent majority...
...established and is maintained as a convenience to students seeking opportunities for employment or graduate study, and the validity or suitability of its procedures. Unless you are completely unlike the Harvard men who have gone before you, I double that any of you would ever want that office to confront you with an arbitrarily restricted list...