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...rest of the committee's proposals, despite their validity, are more valuable as endorsements for existing trends or actual policies than as original suggestions for ways to improve Harvard-Radcliffe affiliation. Doubtless Radcliffe should have a permanent representative on the Committee on Educational Policy; the voluntary, non-credit seminar program should be open to Radcliffe; the Honors program in General Studies might well be extended; resident tutors would intensify the College's intellectual atmosphere; Agassiz would make a great student activities center (were it not one already); and House-hall affiliations are a lovely idea. But somehow it all seems...
...audience would resent. And indeed he had every right to expect it, for the lines were really quite tame, had no particular punch, reflected indeed the thoughts of most run-of-the-mill liberals in the country today. What would have been interesting to hear are the remarks he doubtless makes in small groups, at parties, perhaps to himself, prefaced by a succinct aside: "Well, gang, here's something that I didn't think was quite right for Symphony Hall...
Actually, of course, the fear of success, though understandable enough in a civilization like ours which worships that shifty goddess, is an ignoble fear, and can become ridiculous, as in the pronouncements of those who revolt against the age by reversing its values. We are doubtless a contemptible generation, but it is not true that whatever succeeds with us must be bad. Frost and Eliot and Faulkner and Joyce and Brecht and O'Neill are and were enormous successes--far more successful than the great of other generations have been in their lifetimes. And it is not inconceivable...
...Doubtless the anti-bigot bigots will tar me for this. But I will plead only what the papacy has always claimed for itself: that "the Pope has two swords." The religious sword we fear not at all. It is that political sword that shakes...
Some of the most delightful moments of the evening came in songs which Miss Baez and Mr. von Schmidt sang together. Mr. von Schmidt revealed himself an adept at the harmonica, and both singers played on a cylinder of paper which makes a sound doubtless rarely before heard in the civilized world. At one point Miss Baez discarded one of these instruments by tossing it into the audience--it was a movement of incredible grace, a grace that is evident in her whole bearing, even when she is standing still...