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Walter Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, said yesterday he considered the plan to be too comprehensive to assess quickly. He also said, "HEW found our plan adequate, but groups are entitled to their opinion...
...Clair out front in a political as well as a legal role, Nixon embarked on a drive to save himself by appealing directly to the public and assailing the tactics of the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating his conduct in office. It was much too early to assess public reaction, but the impact on the House of Representatives was immediate. The tactic backfired, and impeachment sentiment rose...
...rationale for the faculty decision is much deeper. Student performance on the National Boards, tests that are supposed to assess achievement in the basic sciences, has dropped from what was uniformly top status for Harvard before the advent of the core...
...system is nothing if not simple. "The fame that some artists attain in time," Bongard writes, "is measurable, on condition that this fame is based mainly on the work of an artist. Certain conclusions may then be drawn as to his qualities." And how may one assess fame? On points. An artist gets 300 points, for instance, if he sells a work to the Museum of Modern Art or the Met, and so down through the Tate Gallery (200), and the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Turin (160). For a one-man show at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm...
...balanced and meticulously researched biography, Dublin-born journalist Brian Inglis traces the Sophoclean confluence of events and experiences that led Casement to fame, obloquy and the gallows as yet another martyr for Irish freedom. How high Casement rates in that mad hierarchy depends on how history will eventually assess the shadowed side of his nature. Casement was a rapacious homosexual, a fact that was never suspected until his arrest in 1916, when Scotland Yard seized his private papers. Its most notable find was the so-called "black diaries" which Casement supporters erroneously denounced as forgeries. The diaries document his obsession...