Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Opponents called him a puppet, a tin soldier. They chided him for walking well behind the 5 ft.-3 in, general so as not to embarrass him with his courtly 6 ft.-2 in. frame. He was once called "the son Franco never had." Wags named him "Juan the Brief" because his public statements were short and infrequent...
Reunions are not by chance Nostalgia needs its antidote, a brief re-creation of those moments of the hard, gem-like flame. So I may finally feel at home in Harvard Square, more, at least, than I ever did back then I am certain to find the same films at the Brattle, the same books in the Coop, and much the same music streaming from the windows in the Yard on those warm, sunny mornings of early summer. What will surprise are the students, how young they will be. Time has passed, and there will come in a rush...
...pass, as in the night by the meaning of one own experience, how natural it is to explain the daily world in terms of individual interest. In the 1960s however, we were following not our inclinations, but rather what we saw as our duty. In those brief years of privilege, for one of the few moments it seems to have been possible in this century, we were free. Our protest was not one of the hungering masses, caught in imminent destruction, but rather an expression of our submission to a moral law. The fact that such words may hardly...
...brief it occurs to me now, remained remorsessly conceived in all of this. It astounds the me to realize that there was a time, only a decade ago, when there was something more important than one's individual future, when life could be dedicated something beyond itself. I did not have a term for it then, but I now know that I measured my life by the concept of duty. I did not know how I would use my future, but I knew that I would prefer none at all if it meant a life of mere personal success...
...five years; if they get promoted to associate, they get another three years or so. Then it's up or out--usually out. "The utter lack of long-term prospects is disappointing, and I think it's bad for morale," says one assistant professor contacted last month in a brief Crimson survey of junior faculty sentiment...