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...half-century," the first paragraph of a ten-page chapter on The Harvard Community states, "Harvard was believed by many to occupy a unique position in the American system of higher education; and that position no longer seems as secure as it once did." The Dunlop Report pictures the University in 1900 as a magically cohesive community--a haven of the intellectual freedom which was being threatened elsewhere and a peculiarly ascetic institution whose members all proudly rejected the market mentality...
OUTRAGED by the disgraceful conduct of his students, a great educator fled his campus in disgust, says the lead paragraph of this week's Essay. The educator was St. Augustine, the year was A.D. 383, the place the campus of Carthage, and the one who called the fact to Essay Writer Marshall Loeb's attention is a 20th century student...
...paragraph, you tell us that Richard Nixon eschews "winner's generalities," and then in the next, proceed to quote Mr. Nixon divesting himself of precisely those generalities [March 15]. He pledges to end the war, but talks of neither escalation nor negotiation; he promises peace in the Pacific, but gives us no clue as to a solution, an idea, or one single creative thought in that direction. He faults the Administration for urban violence, but comes up with not even a productive comment, let alone a panacea...
...only news coverage the event received was a three-paragraph dispatch by the Associated Press, based on the afternoon press conference...
...fall of Weimar and the rise of Hitler is accomplished in a paragraph...