Word: responded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that universities had been slow to respond to the concerns of students--treating them instead as children. He traced his reaction to the origins of the American university sys- tem--originally an outgrowth of secondary schools--and to an inherent American attitude towards a student: "Because he's not earning his living, he sorely lacks judgement...
...would like to respond to the personal slander against us in the Committee of Fifteen's letter to those disciplined. They charge...
...largeness of impulse--Lowell's ambition to respond to so many happenings--results in uneven inspiration. Some, the beautiful Father and Sons poem for Alan Tate, the Writers series, Caracas, some of the Dream poems, others--are among Lowell's most brilliant. The three poems to R.F.K. seem low-key and common at first-then resonant and vital. The Mexico series on the whole is mediocre--although it has brilliant lines and cadences. Lowell's use of the sonnet to frame his vision emphasizes the uneven inspiration. A few poems are written long to fulfill the form and must take...
...this was conscious baiting, but even more of it was an expression of frustration at endless stories and reports followed by little or no action. As LIFE's Jack Rosenthal noted, "The frustration is not so much with the press as with the public, which doesn't respond. There is a natural tendency to blame the messenger for failure to get the message across." Some reporters refused to be drawn into the arguments. "I refuse to bore you with my opinions," Bill Buckley remarked imperiously to one hostile audience. But the continual hostility brought out occasional flashes...
Responsibility for the attachment of this statement to a fund-raising appeal rests presumably with the chairman and council of the Graduate Society, but also with ex-officio councillors Pusey, Ford, Price and Elder. Alumni who respond to the appeal should take pains to repudiate both the inappropriate political maneuvering, and the content of the statement with which, by virtue of their contribution, they would otherwise be associated. Sarah Kafatou...