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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Many committees seem to duplicate previous efforts every time a new assembly is elected and a new committee chairman takes charge. The assembly owes most of its successes to individual rather than group initiatives. As a group, the assembly tends to adopt stock answers--such as general resolutions and "open forums"--that represent a dissipation of energy and abandonment of responsibility...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Reassembling Leviathan | 10/22/1980 | See Source »

Assembly members claim that a more potent assembly would attract more dedicated delegates who would use the new powers to replicate in other areas the success the group has achieved in the only area where it has enjoyed autonomy from the University--social life. Many students still perceive great potential in the idea of an assembly, despite waning enthusiasm for the existing body...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Reassembling Leviathan | 10/22/1980 | See Source »

Inflation is largely attributable to the enormous concentration of power and wealth in the hands of four or five corporations, Michael Ansara, '68, staff director for Mass. Fair Share, a community organizing group, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ansara Talk | 10/21/1980 | See Source »

Undergraduates should be able to take two of their 10-required Core Curriculum half-courses on a pass/fail basis, the Educational Resources Group (ERG) recommended yesterday...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: ERG Recommendation | 10/21/1980 | See Source »

This tension between private vision and public violence unified a group of Polish wartime writers. Milosz went underground in Warsaw where he battled the Germans with a clandestine press, firing the spirit of resistance with articles and anti-Nazi poetry. From 1946 to 1950, he served in Washington and Paris as a member of Warsaw's diplomatic corps. He translated T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg and wrote articles for the Polish press. But all was not well between the private and public man. Having escaped Hitler's oppression, Milosz now felt hemmed in by the Stalinist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Honoring a Pole Apart | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

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