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Curiously, Engelmayer would have us excuse Pattullo's bigotry by thanking him for his honesty. This suggestion we reject as thoroughly as we do Pattullo's condescending, pity. Considering the precarious position of lesbian and gay students, research, and teaching--how many gay studies courses are there at Harvard?--Engelmayer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bigotry And Research | 5/5/1982 | See Source »

The term off-topic may have been coined by a condescending purist, but now the apostate sect, like up-and-coming Fauvists, revels in the name. Bill Smith, a natty, placid Harvard freshman and Kidd's teammate, suggests a continuing enmity between the offs and the ons. "Off-topic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: The Best and the Glibbest | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

BUT HARVARD STANDS at great risk if it becomes complacent towards the issues surrounding the plant or condescending towards its critics. Financial and safety questions won't begin to be answered until the plant's opening. MTAEP was originally expected to save as much as $2 million a year, but...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Making Energy and Enemies | 3/10/1982 | See Source »

Reagan's advisers have been sufficiently chagrined to seek a remedy. Chief of Staff James Baker wants to organize a committee of insiders that would track all issues likely to affect women and racial minorities. Such a committee might reconsider a small but revealing question: Should the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House Sensitivity Gap | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

The Post, with its 730,000 circulation, has to appeal not only to its most intelligent readers but to "quite different people-the old mass- vs.-class editor's problem." But mass vs. class makes a poor defense in the case of the Post's gossip column called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Going Eyeball to Eyeball - and Blinking | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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