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...support the unionization of graduate students. The Administration has demonstrated, through its maneuverings behind the Commission on Graduate Education, that it will not negotiate with graduate students within the framework of the Harvard bureaucracy...
...experience of the 1960s and early 1970s and a reading of U.S. history has persuaded us that the problems we confront cannot be solved within the framework of the capitalist society. (The argument is spelled out in some detail in R. Edwards, M. Reich, and T. Weisskopf, The Capitalist System, a book that grew out of our experience teaching...
...have done better at explaining away poverty than in eradicating it. In their advisory roles, conventional economists have reflected the bias of their theories as as well as the political requirements of remaining "in favor" by at best accepting and more often justifying the institution of capitalism as the framework within which decisions are to be made...
Harvard's performance in conforming to the wishes of its benefactors has traditionally been a major strength. Men such as George Bennett have at times been controversial for their narrow definition of the responsibilities of property ownership. But within the well-established framework of a university's obligations to its donors, stern adherence to ideals of proper conduct has been a source of strength to the school every since it was stung in the Arnold Arboretum suit several years ago. Harvard in the past has not broken lightly the terms of its endowments...
...Simon, in his longer essay, goes beyond Sontag. He is much clearer than she, to begin with, in his framework of a meditation on the numbers one and two. He explores the film as a perfectly realized experiment, the Ulysses of the cinema, and, putting scholarship before pleasure, even admits that there are influences from Godard. In the Persona essay, even more than in the other three, Simon's presentation is helped along by his editors' useful choice of stills, many in sequences, which clarify important scenes and give a feeling for the marvelous texture of Sven Nykvist's cinematography...