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...major problems, according to Cottle, was establishing an open atmosphere for both races within the framework of white authority presented by the leaders and the Harvard meeting place. "Are we guinea pigs? Is everything confidential? Are you going to write all this up?" some of the students asked...
After the war, as veterans of 25 to 30 years of age came onto the campus, the custodial role became gradually modified. Until recently, the University has tried to provide a wide framework for the exchange of all ideas and nearly all kinds of behavior. It builds a big playpen for all of us to roam around...
...Bryce in scholarship, Heren offers considerable journalistic value: he provokes Americans into looking outside the framework of favorite myths. But if Americans are not the impulsive, brash upstarts that they themselves and a good deal of the world have taken them to be, just who are they? A notably patient people, Heren believes, infinitely capable of compromise, whose society is less the product of revolutionary fiat than of constant evolutionary adjustments over the years...
Within the framework of the 1967 Military Selective Service Act, the President may direct draft boards to draft first the oldest men under 26, or 19-year-olds, or a certain mixture of the two. Every scheme yet devised by the Defense Department to determine the mix is unfair to someone. Johnson is said to be leaning toward a plan under which the monthly mix would be determined by the proportion of men of each age in the eligible pool; thus if half the men in the pool are 21, half of each month's call-up would...
...only after exacting a promise of top secrecy. And if the pressagents were quiet, the recording sessions were quieter still. Dylan, 26, has abandoned the electric guitar and big-noise backing that thundered out from his last few albums, and has returned to his earlier acoustic-guitar-plus-harmonica framework...