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...When his partner comes to the policeman's aid, he too is jumped, and all the assailants get away. It is perhaps the most personal violence of the weekend, and certainly the most unprovoked, but the crowd doesn't seem shocked--"Pigs suck," one group yells. A more ideological element at the other end of the parking lot chants, mysteriously. "We're non-violent--how about you" at the policemen, who are finally rescued by a dozen National Guardsmen...
...present political turmoil: I feel strongly that our political trend is headed in a worrisome direction. The problems are complex: guaranteeing our national security, realizing our modernization and prosperity, and preventing any element from dividing our nation. I feel as though we are being forced to drift aimlessly, gripped by wrong ideas [such as permissiveness and lack of discipline] and totally disregarding the realities. On the question of when martial law should be lifted, I regret to say that such questions are beyond the realm of my duties...
...torsos of Two Nudes, 1906, delineate the period's end. In between lay some magnificent paintings, such as the Seated Female Nude with Crossed Legs, 1906, whose solidities of thigh, trunk and breasts anticipate the swollen torsos of Picasso's "classical" women 15 years later. It was one more element in the predictions, recapitulations and variations of theme that composed the tissue of Picasso's imagination...
...true kingmakers, capable of savaging or salvaging a candidacy with a few well-chosen words. Such criticism of the press, not altogether new, is not altogether convincing either. Though the press has indisputably become part of the political process that it reports, it is no more than one element in that process...
...powerful truth. Professors often fail to rise to this standard of judgement out of prejudice, mean-mindedness, and the narcosis induced by membership in a mutual admiration society. But they also fail out of a kind of hypocrisy and despair. They want to suppress the painful awareness of the element of arbitrariness in their lifelong devotion to some particular mode of thought. They are unable to imagine their own discipline, in the here and now, as the arena of a violent formative contest. Judged by the higher standard, academic freedom does not flourish at Harvard. Our failure to establish...