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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, L.H.D. Because you have tirelessly devoted yourself to the problems of those outside the mainstream of society...
...intercollegiate teams have fled the gym for the relative luxury of the IAB, but in a funny way. It makes an appropriate home for the Harvard Radcliffe modern dance program. There is almost a tradition that artists have thrived in--or in opposition to--locales out of the mainstream, and even if the building is so underwired that any dance performances in it have to be lit with electricity from Agassiz Theatre, its high ceilings and broad windows give it an ambience and a flexibility and--you might say-an "underwhelmingness" that no modern white-paint sheetrock-and-ten-foot...
...first long poem, "The Vengeance of Fionn" set the mood for his early narratives based on the saga cycles of ancient Ireland. These include the Fiannaigheacht, a series of stories about Fionn MacChumhall and his young, unmarried, Fenian warriors, 2000-year-old stories that were lost to the mainstream of Irish consciousness but survived and multiplied among the peasantry; and the Ulster cycle, another series whose central epic, the Tain, relates the deeds of the mighty hero, Cuchulain, and the fights between king Conchobor's Ulster and other regions of Ireland...
...Mainstream American politicians like Gerald Ford and Vance Hartke are looking for a graceful way to close the books on U.S. involvement in Indochina. The hawks of the war era, men like Ford who wanted to beat back the advance of communism in Southeast Asia, are humiliated by America's defeat and resentful toward those who forced restraint upon the war effort. In a different political climate the hawks might be clamoring for recriminations against those who caused the United States to "lose Vietnam," but for now they are satisfied to forgive if everyone else will forget. And the liberals...
Noting that "people in this country who committed war crimes continue to enjoy respect," Falk says that the mainstream of "the American people are unprepared for allegations of criminality. "War crimes trials would be disruptive," he says, "since so many people are trying so hard to forget." He admits, though, "Maybe I've too easily estimated the mood of the nation on the war issue...