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...alternative. He writes in 1952, "Much too late I am beginning to grasp that there is only one valid kind of loyalty: toward morality," but the remark has an empty ring because Speer has no moral system, still less an allegiance to one. If he ever tried to confront the problems of moral philosophy or religious faith, it is not apparent in these diaries. He contents himself with lip service to the trite idea of the basic wickedness of Hitler and Nazism, but fails to consider why they are evil...
This fear is really a cluster of related fears. The perceived suffering is particularly acute these days because seniors must confront not only the usual threats of disappointing themselves, their parents, and their advisors, but because the changes in the economy and the society leave them fewer and fewer places to go. After all, these seniors who drop their theses immediately after admission to law school or grad school can't say with much conviction that they were in it for the love of scholarship. And considering what a drag it in fact is to produce one of these hundreds...
...experience there. His selection as a study group leader, in fact, was based partly, Hayden says, on an article Malek published in the Fall 1972 Harvard Business Review called "Mr. Executive Goes to Washington." In the article, Malek says he will relate "the political and bureaucratic quicksands" that confront businessmen, and shows how "some former businessmen have avoided entrapment and carried out their programs relatively successfully...
Although Rosovsky says he has never read these schools' reports ("I try to focus on the local problem"), he has set up a system that he hopes is free of their flaws. But in his concern about an ultimate Faculty rejection, Rosovsky failed to confront the weaknesses of his task force subdivisions...
...used to crack his engineering books. "Details, details, details," he laments. "Perfection. I go too far." For Mimi, he spent weeks in Sicily armed with tape recorders and cameras, studying local speech and mannerisms. "Once I've formed an idea of a character," Giannini reports, "I confront him from the outside. I start with the spinal cord, which is basic to his carriage, his entire nervous system. I must decide how he stands and carries himself in the world. Next, his arms-how does he reveal himself through his arms...