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...Attorney General's office could be reached last night to confirm that a waiver had been granted...
...sense Bok's plan is enlightening because it finally makes clear the way Harvard feels it serves society. It seems to confirm Pusey's fears about the fate of American universities which had always had "a peculiarly practical orientation," and "very little--perhaps too little--of the ivory tower." Harvard has hardly been an ivory tower these past few years. Its reliance on government funds (and more recently, with the Med School's Monsanto contract, on industrial funds) continues to increase. And its impact on government has been significant--Ford's administration is the first to have three former Harvard...
...position is too cleverly undermined by irony, too mined with paradox, to prevail. In The Wreck of the Deutschland (the poem, not the flick), one of the nuns at the moment of her death "christens her wild worst Best," just as Hopkins himself struggled a lifetime to confirm precisely in private pain and worldy rebuff some clear sign of God's forgiving love. Enderby attempts to perform the same sort of personal miracle. Desperately he tries to see the cruelty, vulgarity and violence not as correctable aberrations but as signs that man is still free, but still in need...
Offstage, Taj exudes the same warmth he generates when he performs. When I called him up from the lobby of the Hotel Lenox last week to confirm his room number, he good-naturedly answered the phone. "Arby's Chicken Palace!" As I entered his suite, he ruffled his bedspread into place, greeted me with a grin and handshake, lit some incense, sat down in a rocking chair while toying with a soccer ball, and began to talk and sometimes ramble, his verbiage interlaced with words like "cosmos" and "vibes...
Neither Gallo nor the officials in charge of the Business School recruiting program were available last night to confirm the change in plans or to comment on the proposed demonstration in support of the UFW's nationwide boycott of Gallo products...