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At times, Mazlish and Diamond descend from the simplistic into the banal. In various parts of the book, the authors compare Carter to DeGaulle, Gandhi, the young Luther (a la Erik Erikson) Oliver Cromwell and Handsome Lake, a Seneca Indian who had a series of revelations that led to his...
When the race ends, the native of Cambridge does not allow himself time to rejoice as he frantically copies the times of the scoreboard, muttering to himself how the times compare with others.
"But once you have socialist realities all over the world and compare them with bourgeois reality, you start to wonder what socialism really is," he added.
But somehow, playing a big game against Vermont or even B.U. doesn't compare with the Beanpot. The setting and the occasion elevate and magnify the strengths, weaknesses and importance of people and events. So it is with the Beanpot--imagine your midterm rescheduled to the Taj Majal. Both Harvard...
When women begin to publicly discuss and compare their experiences, they begin to see that pattern. Lundeen and others, however, say speaking openly can easily degenerate into "destructive gossip." But most women who have encountered sexual harassment at the University are more interested in having it stop than they are...