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Visiting lecturer Vincent S. R. Brandt, who presently teaches one of the three course, says that "there is a political question involved" in the still unfilled chair. He says, "General feeling was that it was awkward to take the money and appoint an activist [against the Korean government], but on the other hand it was not in Harvard's interest to appoint an apologist for the South Korean government...
...service matches him up with Patricia (Wendy Hughes), who though ten years younger is as awkward and as lonely. Shy and sexually inexperienced. Patricia is fighting for independence from her overly protective and meddlesome parents and from her own lack of self-confidence...
...dispute between King and Jackson was an awkward one for T.J. Jemison. As Coretta King informed the roaring crowd in Los Angeles last week, her late husband had sought Jemison's counsel before launching the famous Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, and with good reason Two and a half years earlier, Jemison, as the young pastor of Mount Zion First Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, La., had organized the nation's first bus boycott. His campaign forced the city to integrate seating in its transportation system in just eight days...
...Third Mouse, a government tutor, reminded me of a skilled doctor with cold hands. Unable to impart his higher knowledge in an even midly appealing way, he prefaced his answers to students questions with the statement, "Well, I think it's rather obvious." After a few intensely awkward discussions in which I tried and failed to get him to explain certain aspects of American government out of the distant realm of theory, I came to the conclusion that he probably hadn't yet done so himself...
Mitterrand's statements reflect the sensitivity of the Chad issue in France. The Socialists have usually opposed military interventions in Africa, and they now find it awkward to have changed their position. French rightists also find themselves in a paradoxical position, reluctant to condemn an intervention that is in line with their own past policies. The three main opposition leaders, former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former Premier Raymond Barre and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, have all kept silent on the subject. Yvon Blot, spokesman for the neo-Gaullist party, speculated that Mitterrand's "bizarre...