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...Handlin's that turned out to deal with the innovative power of American cities around the turn of the century. I searched Professor Handlin's lecture for veiled references to the strike and found not a one. But as its finish, laying down his notes, the good professor waxed grim and offered a brief prayer that Harvard might have returned to normalcy by his course's next meeting...
After five years of urban disturbances, the U.S. has become inured to grim box scores: the number of people killed, injured and arrested, the dollars lost from looting and arson. Recently, however, there has been a shift toward a different pattern of violence. The old-style, spontaneous and omnidirectional ghetto riots-such as those in Watts, Detroit and Newark-have been declining since 1967. Instead, city after city has seen a series of small-scale, sometimes premeditated and often fatal armed clashes. "Race-related disorders," reports Brandeis University's Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence, rose from...
...Handlin's that turned out to deal with the innovative power of American cities around the turn of the century. I searched Professor Handlin's lecture for veiled references to the strike and found not a one. But at its finish, laying down his notes, the good professor waxed grim and offered a brief prayer that Harvard might have returned to normalcy by his course's next meeting...
...military operations in Viet Nam have always been of an "illusionary nature," he nonetheless cited some. In a typical week, when 35 to 40 enemy attacks are launched, some 150 to 200 Americans are likely to die. When, as in a recent week, the Communists make 211 attacks, the grim toll of 453 U.S. dead is the result. But, asked a newsman, was Hamburger Hill an example of a U.S. attack or a Communist assault? The North Vietnamese had been sitting more or less quietly on top. of Ap Bia when the 101st discovered them and moved to dislodge them...
...highlight was undoubtedly Mozart's Don Giovanni, which was performed on the gala May night in 1869 when the Emperor Franz Josef presided over the opening of the huge sandstone operatic palace. In the pit last week was Conductor Josef Krips, who revived Don in 1945 in the grim days immediately after the war, when the company took temporary refuge in the Theater an der Wien...