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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...bigger offender. In a moving baccalaureate address, which evoked his personal agony in coping with Harvard's turmoils, he blamed campus disruption on faculty and student extremists "who would like to see our colleges and universities denigrated, maligned and even shut down." In Pusey's angry view, such agitators-specifically, the S.D.S.-use techniques akin to those of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, for whom Pusey served as a favorite target. He cited the Hitlerian tactic of "the big lie"-in this case, the radicals' claim "that the university is a hopelessly bigoted, reactionary force...
...would-be exploiters. This former world is created and precariously maintained in all generations by civilized men, a world for which in the depths of our hearts I am sure we all yearn. What I have wanted to say to you today is simply that, in my view, as Harvard men you are called to serve that world...
Though Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. is no less a defender of the world that Pusey envisioned, he took a rather broader view of the current student generation's motives. Speaking to Yale's seniors, Brewster decried the inaccuracies of political labels, especially as they have been tossed about on campuses recently. "To call those who are not destructively militant 'moderate' grossly understates the widespread exasperation and outrage with injustice," he said. And "to call them 'liberal' tags them with a wishful gradualism which belies the depths of their impatience." But if labels...
Many in the class of 1970 itself called for rapprochement. Speaking for his fellow graduates at the University of Texas, John Zammito maintained that "we are too often and too easily trapped into categories. We lose our sense of common humanity, dividing human life into camps." In his view, "There is no youth; there are only children. There is no Establishment; there are only parents. We must throw off the blindness of righteousness, of silence, of rhetoric." Zammito appealed to his peers: "Have we so completely forgotten the love and care of our parents? Have we forgotten our origins? Only...
...living musical drama but as a hopeful sign that pop forms like rock may have the vocabulary and expressive scope to deal with important subjects on a broad symphonic and operatic range. Every troubled society or social group needs its own encouraging myths and fables. From that point of view, for the rock world Tommy is at least a start...