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...Kremlin conference the week before? "No question that could sow distrust was at stake. The role of the Soviet Union has been much overplayed." Were the "military maneuvers" of the Russian army in Poland over? "Why don't you ask the Poles?" Cernik insisted that Czechoslovakia would never alter its ties to Russia, but added: "We think we can contribute to the dismantling of the cold war." Cernik and Sik made plain that investments by the capitalist world would henceforth be welcome, announced that small, family-scale free enterprise would again be permitted in Czechoslovakia. Eventually, Sik said...
That Mozart is also the alter ego of senior music concentrator Robert Levin is no accident. Levin dates the loss of his musical virginity at the age of five and has been busily at work ever since. In the vocabulary of a prominent member of the Music Department, he has all the "equipment": perfect pitch, near-total recall, ability to read scores at sight, digital dexterity, and a catholic if necessarily incomplete cerebral storehouse of music from the 17th century to the present. At Harvard he has been chiefly occupied as classical music guru at WHRB, in addition to somewhat...
...Named for the doctor who accidentally helped to open the door to research in brain chemistry in 1928 by discovering that overdoses of insulin can drastically alter the course of some mental illnesses...
Student and Faculty representation on the Board of Overseers would not radically alter the balance of power in the University. Through Harvard's history, power has continually been shifted from the central administration to the various faculties. Decentralization, which has for the most part been a beneficial development, would not be reversed if the Board of Overseers were democratically opened to all persons connected with the University...
This possibility loomed large in President Kirk's mind during the six days of waiting. Yet he could not allow amnesty for the demonstrators because that would, as he said, "alter the foundations of every university." The demonstrators couldn't give in: they had not accomplished their goal. The administration couldn't give in, because then the demonstrators would not have to. Yet there was the risk that in reversing a temporary status quo to enforce the more permanent one, the administration would alienate its student support...