Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personal secretary during his Harvard years (1955-62), 1 was initially puzzled and somewhat dismayed to learn of the acutely personal revelations in Hannah Tillich's book about life with Paulus [Oct. 8]. But upon further reflection. I think her demythologizing will undoubtedly further public interest in a closer study of his writings, with the added insight that here was a philosopher-theologian whose wisdom sprang not from an antiseptic ivory tower but from the morass of personal anguish at being much too human...
...Love Affair. The delay is likely to inspire many members of Congress to a closer examination of whether preferential trade advantages to the Soviets-that is, credits and advanced technology-are in the U.S. interest. "Trade should be seen, and I think now it will be seen, as a straight trade-off," says Morton Halperin, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former National Security Council member. "What can we get for those concessions...
Welcome Home. In his book, Monsignor Kelleher recommends scrapping the tribunal system because it imposes a legal solution on what is essentially a complex personal affair. The better the courts work, Kelleher says, the closer they come to granting de facto divorces with permission to remarry. The process demeans both the law and the marriage partners, he argues, because it requires a declaration that the first marriage never existed, often on grounds that imply that one or both partners were somehow unstable. Kelleher does not say that the church can or should "dissolve" a troubled marriage, but rather that...
President Bok moved just a shade closer to supporting the return of ROTC to Harvard last week, telling the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), in a closed meeting that the 1969 Faculty decision to abolish ROTC was made under extreme pressure and great haste...
...Committee, meeting with representatives of the NLF and North Vietnam. The three week study of Indochina's political structure and the effects of the war was extended unexpectedly when Mendelsohn's party was trapped in Saigon for ten days by the Tet offensive. "We saw the war a lot closer than we had planned," Mendelsohn recalls now. Upon his return, Mendelsohn embarked on his long, sometimes lonely campaign of putting antiwar resolutions before the Harvard faculty. Last December, during the peak of the carpet-bombing in Indochina, Mendelsohn, a vice president, and six other members of the American Association...