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...Science reasearch has a tremendous advantageover other fields," Herschbach said, "becausethere is always a truth which waits patiently tobe discovered through ardent pursuit and hardwork...
When Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, an ardent supporter of segregation, spoke in Sanders Theatre in 1968, he received a less-than-friendly welcome from the Harvard crowd--which surrounded the theater after his speech...
Over the years, Halperin's liberal views have achieved their most ardent expression in defense policy, a piece of hallowed conservative turf. Yet he used his position as a director of the A.C.L.U. to espouse such profoundly nonliberal campaigns as defending the constitutional rights of Oliver North, Lyn Nofziger and the conservative student writers at the Dartmouth Review...
...currently, and for the greater part of this century, known as the Freshman Union, as well as a "Social Sciences Quad" in the Littauer region north of the yard. In front of a sea of wealthy potential donors, Rudenstine seemed suddenly possessed by the spirit of Khrushchev. In his ardent pitch for restructuring he informed the crowd that, "the new facilities will be designed to create--quite literally--physical as well as programmatic `bridges' between separate units." Putting departments next to each other will foster interdisciplinary approaches to problems, he declared, ushering in a scholastic golden age of professorial cooperation...
This is work of undeniable power. After seeing the playlets on their long way to Broadway, after reading them as well, and even when sharing little of their ardent leftist politics, one can still be reduced to tears by Fire in the Hole, in which the destitute risk death and win their battle to form a union. At previews last week, audiences offered sustained and frequent applause -- most intense, curiously, at the start of the second three hours, as though they belatedly realized that the emotional impact of the first half had muted their show of enthusiasm...