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...however, believe that this disposes of the troubling problem of the academy's political neutrality. Conor Cruise O'Brien points out somewhere that in the developing world here are "their neutrals" and "our neutrals." The analogy is not perfect, but for most American universities, their "neutrality" or their "political" character has always been tipped to the established order. It is feigned innocence to pretend that any other situation could adhere. As Harvard has eschewed the worst features of this imbalance, it is rightly a matter of some pride. Yet a can-did confrontation with its own normative principles cannot help...
...Congo crisis of 1961-62 was no simple affair, even if its complexities tend to merge in one's memory into a vast bloodbath. Probably no one is more aware of those complexities than Conor Cruise O'Brien, who was at times their author, but in the end their victim...
...source is To Katanga And Back by Conor Cruise O'Brien. According to Mr. O'Brien, the code name for the operation was Morthor, a Hindi word which does not mean "put out the fire in the garage," or "defend yourself". It means "smash." Mr. O'Brien can hardly be accused either of ignorance or of pro-katagese bias; he was the U.N official in charge in Elizabethville during the operation. His only major objection to the way Morthor was handled was that the lie, invented after Tshombe had eluded the U.N. and the operation had apparently failed, made...
...sale, Wilson pored over the catalogue, noting in his private code bids already phoned in and the reserve price below which Maugham would not sell. From his opening announcement-"Lot No. 1. Roderick O'Conor's Still Life with Vegetables"-he presided over the sale without a flicker of nervousness, apart from shooting a cuff now and then. The 35 paintings went for $1,466,864, including $244,000-the highest price ever paid at auction for a living artist-for a Picasso curiosity that showed The Death of Harlequin on one side and Woman Seated...
...First overnight stop: Rome, where thousands braved forbidding chill and rain to cheer her on rounds that included a formal call on President Giovanni Gronchi and an audience with Pope John XXIII, with whom she would converse in French. - Back to Africa bounded Ireland's choleric, keen-witted Conor Cruise O'Brien, 44, the literary critic and critical diplomat who was chief of the U.N.'s Katanga force until he resigned in a huff over British and French policy in the Congo. New post for Dr. O'Brien: the vice-chancellorship of the University of Ghana...