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...march off to lectures, lunch, and laboratories like a group of campers. You will find it nearly impossible to meet Faculty members socially. You will have great difficulty pursuing outside interests in the face of quantities of required memory and busy work. You will be examined relentlessly. You will confront an administration that is offensively paternalistic. And you will probably feel you are not encouraged to do much thinking...
...There are good men here, just as there are bad men. There are competent leaders and a bungler here and there. We have activists who risk their lives to confront a people with the challenge of freedom and a nation with its conscience. We have neutralists who cautiously seek to calm troubled waters. We have the men about the work of reconciliation who are willing to reflect upon the cost...
Perhaps at one time or another, the two of us are all of those. Sometimes we take to the streets, sometimes we yawn through interminable meetings, sometimes we talk with white men in their homes and offices...Sometimes we confront the posse, and sometimes we hold a child. Sometimes we stand with men who have learned to hate and sometimes we must stand a little apart from them...
...objective," said New Premier Stephanopoulos, "is to confront serious economic and social problems and restore peace and calm in the country." Yet he can scarcely repeal any of Papandreou's costly programs without enhancing his canny old opponent still more in the eyes of the voters-and sooner or later, as both Stephanopoulos and King Constantine know, there will have to be a general election to put Papandreou's demands to the test...
Morgenthau insisted that the U.S. approach to Communism can no longer be monolithic (as was possible ten years ago) but should confront Communism as it appears in its various forms today...