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...above brief, but excellent, raison d'etre of Harvard College was extracted from a recent "Official Register of Harvard University" (Aug.1960). A second extraction from the "Register," which is, like the first, valuable and relevant to the current Doty Committee controvrsy, is, "... the heart if Harvard tradition is freedom... [One] aspect is academic freedom, the freedom of the faculty to search for truth as they see it. The Harvard seal is Veritas. [Another] aspect is freedom for the student...
...want her cities destroyed as a result of a purely Continental struggle, France would provide the atomic umbrella for Europe. De Gaulle fears that MLF might eventually provide, as Kennedy hinted, for sharing control of the nuclear button. Shared control of existing weapons would largely obviate the raison d'etre of the separate French deterrent. The deterrent, in turn, is on of the keys to the General's blueprint for French leadership of an independent Europe...
...producer to write kind words to a reviewer, I find it impossible not to comment on what you had to say about Rhino! What most producers look for in a review is a critic's discovery of the one element that serves as the producer's raison d'être. You discovered it and commented. I refer to the line, "The animals themselves are examined with wonder and with love...
Budgetary problems may present more of a difficulty for the School (though it is hard to understand how the present $15 charges contribute significantly toward the operation of the School.) But obviously it must face this problem and make a choice. The raison d'etre of the Summer School has always--at least ostensibly--been an intellectual one. Its goal should indeed be "active involvement" in an intellectual community, as the director suggests. But the Summer School actively discourages such an involvement by its closed door policy on auditing. That purely financial considerations should dictate such practice at Harvard seems...
...seem to be going through motions rather than emotions. The two best songs in the score are sexy: A Room Without Windows ("a room without doors") and The Friendliest Thing ("two people can do"). Too many of the lyrics sound like alliances between words that should never have met ("raison d'ètre . . . et cetera...