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...confession of helplessness that is cowardly." The poet Robert Frost, growing impatient with Eisenhower's repeated middle-of-the-road metaphor, complained that "the middle of the road is where the white line is ? and that's the worst place to drive." But Eisenhower had a wider middle in mind, which served him well as a political credo. He deplored categorizing people "as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road." The people he despised were those who "go to the gutter on either the right or the left...
Similarly, Rosovsky has given the Faculty Council wider responsibilities and the opportunity to serve as a sounding board for the dean's ideas. That move has probably contributed to a year in which political conflict played a negligible role in Faculty legislation. "I was never totally unaware of politics, but I can't think of any issue on which the votes [in the Faculty Council] broke down on the entirely conservative-liberal lines," Kiely said last week...
James G. Pope '73-4, a member of the New American Movement and an organizer of the activities, said last night, "We plan to demonstrate that members of the Harvard community are intensely concerned about the issues of the printers' strike and the wider issue of Harvard's wage policy as a whole...
...ourselves from mentally constipated attitudes," Novelist White (The Eye of the Storm) told an overflow crowd in Sydney's stunning new Opera House. "Mr. Whitlam has helped Australians to heave themselves out of that terrible morass which caused so many talented Australians to leave the country for the wider world outside, where their ideas and ideals won recognition." Said the Prime Minister: "We have given Australia a new pride and standing in the world ... We have buried old animosities. We are held in new respect by old friends and allies. Never in her history has Australia been more secure...
...felt a general need for an instrument for the expression of black musical creativity," Lucas says. At first oriented toward sacred music, the group later developed a wider range, and it added poetry and prose readings. "We wanted to try and fill the vacuum for black creative arts. We saw it as a chance for spiritual communion, a forum for political views and for our belief in God," says Lucas...