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...this principle deny both speakers and their listeners the rights of free speech and assembly; they suppress dissent; and they create an atmosphere of coercion and intimidation hostile to the exchange of views. Such an atmosphere can produce an insidious form of censorship in which members of the University refrain from inviting certain guests or even from expressing certain ideas...
THREE years ago the Cambridge City Council used to meet in the afternoon and then adjourn to Igo's restaurant for cocktails and a leisurely dinner of lobster or steak. The city picked up the tab, of course. But it is unlikely now that the nine councillors could refrain from making political accusations over such dinners. The Council meets now in the evening and the sessions are long. Driveway permits and requests to put up signs on stores no longer have priority. Groups protesting rent control, police brutality, the lack of low-rent housing, and the recent tendency...
...Barry's first Broadway musical score (after Goldfinger, Midnight Cowboy and lots of other movies) includes several fine numbers, including a very charming ballad about Humbert's past, "In the Broken Promise Land of Fifteen." "How Far Is It To The Next Town" is a good song, but its refrain is hardly an adequate substitute for the constant car travel between motels in the book and movie. The mindless opening number, "Going, Going, Gone," sounds like Top 40 material...
...that strike, which had two sides; on the one hand, there is a lot more radical sentiment on campus. Many more people think that the system stinks. But, on the other hand, many of these people see no real way of changing it. The liberal politician's refrain "wait till next year!" is being met more and more with the realization that what we are being asked to wait for is to be "channeled into responsible processes" (McCarthy's avowed intention), that is, sold...
...South House Committee wishes to express its very strong disapproval of the housing regulations expressed in the non-merger. We request that the administration refrain from hastily applying these regulations. We also ask the administration to make a clear statement of these regulations so that students may study them and express their opinions...