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...Jerry Conant, an ad-man in Greenwood, Connecticut, working on commercials to promote freedom in the Third World for the State Department, has grown morbidly fearful of death. Finding his wife Ruth provides him little comfort, he turns to the arms of a neighbor, Sally Mathias, who (as she represents it) is oppressed by her husband Richard. Their affair is heady, passionate, and now they are faced with the problem of resolving it--whether they will deny themselves their pleasure, or leave their respective spouses, and children for each other...
Although Bok--as president of the University--has felt that it is his role to push the professional schools to create joint programs, he has declined to take the powerful role a president like Conant took in shaping undergraduate education. Although he has argued repeatedly that Harvard must improve the quality of its undergraduate education--"to give the students their money's worth, which isn't a Harvard tradition"--James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, says Bok has restricted his role largely to establishing funding for professors experimenting with new teaching methods. It was not until Henry Rosovsky took...
...University. As he moves toward the end of his first decade in office Bok's ability to influence and inspire educators--something he has yet to do--may become the prime determinant of whether he is remembered as a caretaker president or as the heir to the Eliot-Lowell-Conant legacy.CrimsonSandy O. Steingard...
...Lauring Conant, an internist at UHS, e0xplains that denial of the problems keeps patients from seeing a doctor. He has seen only two "full-blown" cases of anorexia in the past two years. "One of the terrifying things with this disease," Conant says, "is that they're on a dangerous crevice of 65 pounds and engage in vocational and avocational activities and get in trouble. Even though they may look like prisoners or war victims, they still engage in sports and you wonder how they can do it. Characteristically they are high achievers, intelligent students. Even in starvation, their cerebral...
...Conant says he thinks the anorexic's behavior is a "form of misdirected anger at everything from family to self." This is his clinical impression and he says other psychiatrists at UHS share...