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...anything interesting has ever happened at Harvard, it seems to have been systematically excised from this bland account. Historians generally tend to focus on the significance of periods of upheaval, but these essays emphasize the placid progress of an educational institution with a shifting population of faceless students and teachers. Student riots are glossed over or ignored. Wartime turbulence is omitted. Conspicuously absent is any mention of the most recent Harvard crisis of student demonstrations in the '60's. Clearly, such a short book cannot include every significant event in the University's past, but the lack of any disscussion...
...announcement was bland enough: Charles Schwab, probably the country's best-known discount broker, resigned last week from the 15-member BankAmerica board "to devote undivided time and attention" to the brokerage firm bearing his name, which he sold to the same bank in 1983. But in fact the move had more subterranean implications for the No. 2 banking company in the U.S., which shocked the investment world last month with a second-quarter loss of $640 million. Schwab's sudden departure seemed to be another sign of a muted power struggle at the huge (assets: $117 billion) San Francisco...
Though he was never a "political artist" as such, a political current --generally of a milky, liberal kind--surfaces in Rosenquist's work. It produced a number of bland icons but one real masterpiece as well: F-111, 1965, the 86-ft.-long, multipanel anti-Viet Nam mural that caused a hullabaloo when the Metropolitan Museum chose to exhibit it in the '60s. Unlike most political art of the time, it looks unpolemical at first, and that is the source of its power. It sums up Rosenquist's vision of America as an Eden compromised by its own violence...
...million in the mid-1970s to 1.65 million. . More telling, Bologna is the only large city that still has a Communist mayor. In 1976 there were five, including Rome and Naples. The chances of a party resurgence seem slim under the current leadership of Alessandro Natta, who is bland and unforceful...
...Such bland dismissals outraged civil rights advocates. William Taylor, director of the Center for National Policy Review, a pro-civil rights group, called Reynolds' statement "another example of his putting himself above the law." Said Taylor: "Nobody can look at these decisions in good conscience and say, 'We don't have to change our legal position...