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Freshmen prematurely caught in a bind between academic rigor and the desire for mass recognition need look no further than Thayer 7 for the example provided by the memory of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. '38, historian, adviser to two Presidents, and film critic for Vogue magazine...
...plagued and promoted his political career. He is, in fact, the maverick inlaw, an ambitious man whose efforts to go his own way have created a longstanding coolness between himself and some of the Kennedy family members. Not that he can or even wants to shake the ties that bind him to the charismatic Kennedy image. Kennedys or no Kennedys, Sargent Shriver would be seeking a high position. "For 250 years my family has been in public office," he says. "We've always been bankers, businessmen, public officials. It's a natural thing." The Shriver pride...
...programs. The McGovern advisers contend that they have studies showing that his call for a $32 billion cut in the defense budget and his plans for redistributing wealth by shifting the tax burden is far more popular than is generally thought. They feel that Nixon is in a bind when he praises the arms limitations of the SALT agreements but at the same time asks for more defense money. The key to acceptance of tax changes, they say, is "the breakoff point" between those who will pay the same or less and those who will pay more. They...
...centuries ago, George Washington addressed himself to the critical subject of public information. Citizens, he said, were "on a pivot, and the touch of a feather would turn them away ... Let us bind these people to us with a chain that can never be broken." The chain was the Post Office, providing intelligence to the most remote outposts...
...Congress issued a statement of Washingtonian resonance: "The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the nation together through the personal, educational, literary and business correspondence of the people." Note the common word bind. Suddenly that vital concept is threatened. For with the abrupt increase in rates, the binding would weaken or break. Many a magazine would disappear...