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...toughest remarks made about the President came in September from Democrat Clark Clifford, who, believing he was speaking off the record in Averell Harriman's salon, said that Reagan would be seen to be an "amiable dunce." In this political town, that is now nothing more than wishful Democratic thinking and after-brandy prophecy. But it is planted darkly beneath the surface and will be exhumed by critics, whether fair or not, if Ronald Reagan does not steady his house...
...specialists who patrol the American university have their own difficulties with Foucault. Leo Bersani of the French department at Berkeley eulogizes him as "our most brilliant philosopher of power," but Yale Historian Peter Gay dismisses him: "He doesn't do any research, he just goes on instinct." Anthropologist Clifford Geertz of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study attempts a new classification: "He has become a kind of impossible object: a nonhistorical historian, an anti-humanistic human scientist. He is what any French savant seems to need to be these days: elusive...
...Clifford Russell '85 spent most of last summer behind the controls of an airplane. For 189 hours he practiced spins, approaches, and take-offs to finish a licensing course in two months that usually takes twice that time. Joining AFROTC seemed to be the obvious next step. "I love to fly," he says simply, "They gave me a pilot slot...
...belated inheritance from her mother, she left Vogue to take up the leisure activities women of her upbringing found time to indulge in. But a life of needlepoint, bridge and gardening couldn't satisfy Millicent Fenwick; she took up local politics with a vengeance, volunteering her services to Clifford Case's bid for the Senate and service as vice chairman of the state Republican party...
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