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...enough to point to the University's past failures to live up to its ideals in order to justify our present failure to do so. And, in the final analysis, actions of this sort can not be judged on the basis of their motivation. For academic freedom is meaningless if its application is not universal. And, however much we might wish to treat the atrocity of the war in Indochina as an overriding reason for suspension of the principle, it simply can't be done. Even if we excuse the intolerance exhibited Friday night, the spectre of other...
...Vietnamese Directorate General of Land Affairs has now approved the principle that Montagnard hamlets which are relocated may choose to have legal title to their old hamlet land. However, U. S. officials think this right may be meaningless if Montagnards are forced to remain in relocation centers for years while Vietnamese continue cultivating their former land. "Why should we be so wishful as to think the Vietnamese will get off the land they are on now, even if the Montagnards have a legal title?" says one concerned official...
...country in Korea and Vietnam is relieved of this struggle when he is killed at 95th and Amsterdam before the film begins. The younger son attends college while drooling like a moron on his home turf. The father attempts to live his life in units of activity which are meaningless except for signifying his continued existence. The mother runs errands and keeps house...
...worth seeing, however, but only if one is willing to spend two hours in a world where love and happiness and forgiveness are not in the vocabulary, where a prayer to God is given up because "the bastard doesn't exist," where only jaded, effete people live playing out meaningless parts, where-Oh well. You know what I'm talking about...
...shooting was fairly uneven as the Crimson got off 33 shots to Brown's 20, but shooting statistics are fairly meaningless where Brown is concerned...