Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question that has provoked this summary concerns the tenure process, and Rosovsky launches into a brief discussion of the problems in the Harvard system, which has been criticized for ignoring the University's own junior faculty in favor of more established scholars at other institutions...
...During a brief lull in the shooting, our driver threw the Jeep into reverse and backed in drunken swerves 100 yards away from the heaviest fighting. We scrambled out into a shallow roadside ditch filled with weeds and dried cow manure and spent the next hour in intimate contact with the ground. The fighting finally died down and the contras retreated, leaving eleven dead. Four of the seven Jeeps in the convoy had suffered casualties, the three in front of us and the one immediately behind...
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, brief as it was, would not be brief enough now for television. Oh, the cameras would be there, but they would focus first on the man from ABC-CBS-NBC describing the scene and recalling the battle. In the background Lincoln would be seen speaking but would not be heard saying, "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here." TV's formula these days is words 100 words from the reporter, and a "sound bite" of 15 or 20 words from the speaker. At long last Lincoln's turn...
Johnson supplements this observation with brief, vivid histories that illustrate the natural advantage of the ruthless and unrestrained. All the evidence suggests that the century's major revolutionary tyrants have killed considerably more of their native populations than the governments they replaced. Lenin and Stalin perverted socialist ideals and millions of Russians died. In Central and Eastern Europe, nationalists succeeded in gaining self-determination only to repress ethnic minorities within their own borders...
...writer is more compelling than one who seems modern to later generations. Heinrich von Kleist, the German playwright, story writer and essayist, collected admirers who called him their contemporary for a century and more after his brief lifetime...