Word: except
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Directors at GM. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences had no authority at all, and when it finally did pipe up, alienated the other faculties in the University. The Faculty also proved too unwieldy to state a coherent rationale for their vote. The alumni were unable to respond, except in a haphazard poll taken by the Harvard Bulletin which had little effect. The Committee of Students and Community Relations (CSCR) probably studied the issue in the most detail, but the Corporation serenely ignored its existence...
...imperialism- for example, when SDS campaigned against ROTC, or against the Cambridge Project, or against racist pay differentials among campus workers- administration spokesman parroted old saws about the need for "rational discussion" (while, in fact, they never discussed and had no way of dealing with the real issues except to resort to suspensions and expulsions). However, when SDS and UAG now challenge the CFIA to defend its existence in a public debate, we are told that we are incapable of "serious and rational discussion." If the CFIA were confident that SDS and UAG would really debate in an "irrational" manner...
...illuminating. To Hersey's mind, today's college student is a long-haired, dope-smoking, peace-loving flower child, trying to get his head together. These students, Hersey assures the alumni, are really not much different from the beer-drinking fraternity types who went to Yale twenty years ago, except that they have a little more commitment. While trying to make the college student palatable to the alumnus, he has created a ludicrous caricature of students as a class...
They say you can't learn anything from it except not to do it that way, but that Laos has been very successful, and that that ought to be the kind of model that we ought to follow...
...peasantry are concerned, up until recently there haven't been overwhelming sources of peasant discontent except in the tribal areas of the northeast...