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...forward--a move toward detente with the Test Ban Treaty, the recognition of a world of diversity and of a nation's right to neutrality, the moral acknowledgement that the situation of black people was a disgrace to the nation. If these "calmer days" are to bring us a clearer judgment of JFK, then the black must be seen with the white, with a good deal of gray in between...
...While a clearer job description may help to forestall illusions on the part of Harvard's junior faculty, honesty about the University's limitations does not solve the more fundamental problems of the job market, the publication mania and the resulting laissez-faire attitude toward undergraduate education. Although few would advocate that the University turn away from its search for the best and the brightest, some believe Harvard's educational reputation demands a reassessment of these anomalies. At least one junior faculty member, however, doubts Harvard's willingness to face this challenge. He says, "To change the situation, you need...
...reputation as a researcher and writer grew; T.S. Eliot sought his articles on Marxism, presented with a historian's detachment; W.H. Auden befriended him. By the '50s he was famous. Today Rowse laces his conversation with recollections of the mighty: "Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt spoke much clearer English than Winston, who had a speech impediment as a child and always lisped somewhat...
...this that the student in question came in at the beginning of the term, while we were trying to complete a new building, as the School was preparing for last weekend's opening--which raised our daily phone calls from 50 to over 200--and the problem appears clearer...
...Minnesota Republican Campaign Strategist Vin Weber last week. He was assessing his own state's topsy-turvy politics, but his comment could be applied equally well to races elsewhere. Suddenly the power of incumbency-long an axiom of American politics-no longer seems to apply. Nowhere is this clearer than in the Midwest, where revolts by voters threaten to turn three veteran politicians out of office...