Word: abrams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interrogation scene could have been lifted directly from a macabre novel by Abram Tertz. In a grim government building off Pushkin Square, two Russian plainclothesmen pounded away at their prisoner with 2½ hours of questions. Why, they asked, had the young logician from the Academy of Sciences been carrying a poster that read "Respect the Soviet Constitution"? Replied the prisoner: "Is it wrong to demand respect for the constitution?" Next question: "Are you directing your demand at the Soviet rulers?" Answer: "That is your suggestion. If you feel they need this advice, let them have...
...Michael Abram, has begun to serve the function--unique in Harvard history--which the bipartite constitution outlined for it. That document left to the HUC all the relatively boring and trivial issues of administration which had drawn its predecessor into dark lecture rooms and damp motorcycle lots. The HUC was to concern itself solely with academic policy. The Berkeley riots, which occured shortly before the new government began, highlighted the growing student interest--around the country--in educational policy. The HPC seemed a promising vehicle for converting interest into constructive reform...
...Communist Cuba, John Planck, former professor of Government, and William Barnes, assistant dean of the Law School, were asked to provide suggestions. When a dangerously hard-line Berlin policy seemed to be taking hold in 1961, a Harvard all-star team moved in. On the diplomatic front, "Abram Chayes, Carl Kaysen and I got together to express a collective concern" in the form of a memorandum to the President. Meanwhile "McGeorge Bundy and Kissinger were bringing the President comparable questions about the state of military planning." So many Faculty members were called to Washington that Kennedy was often reluctant...
...eight finalists for senior class marshal were elected yesterday. They are Michael E. Abram, of Kirkland House and Hollywood, Fla.; Jerry L Beasley, of Quincy House and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; William E. Kerstetter, of Dunster House and Greencastle, Ind.; John A. McCluskey of Quincy House and Middleton, Ohio.; George Q. Neville, of Quincy House and Winchester; Keith W. Sedlacek, of Quincy House and Valley Forge. Penn.; William F. Weld, of Adams House and Smithtown, N.Y.; and Barry L. Williams, of Leverett House and New Rochelle...
Penkovsky's memoir-smuggled out of Russia on one of the secret routes that carried Abram Tertz's and Boris Pasternak's works westward-is gritty and gripe-ridden in its condemnation of Moscow's upper-echelon morals, and filled with "revelations" presumably intended to compromise Soviet agents...