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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similar context, Dean was set to claim, he expressed concern about his own role in the cover-up to Nixon and was relieved when the President reassured him that he had nothing to worry about. Thus Dean continued to help keep the facts of White House involvement under wraps. Nixon told him he "had every right" to sit in on FBI interviews with White House personnel on Watergate and read all FBI reports on the affair-actions actually undertaken to aid the coverup...
...associations with Alcott's works then, strictly in the context of childhood and safety, make a dispassionate return to her work difficult. If you reread them with any other purpose than to find a safe passage back to a neutral world, you are disappointed. A serious re-reading usually finds the plot as soppy as Love Story and the once beloved characters about as interesting as Pollyanna...
Klieg lights often throw more heat than illumination. Hearsay evidence can be spoken out of context. Mistakes cannot be edited on live TV. Even the most innocent cameraman can, at a tense moment, transform the zoom lens into a character assassin...
...general tone of the meeting was hostile to Union demands. By its end, all professors had tacitly enlisted in Harvard's valiant struggle to made ends meet in the face of the government's indiscriminate cutbacks. In this context, graduate students' efforts to gain more funds sounded like a selfish tactic that merely served to split the ranks in the good fight...
...belief that radical economics is not sufficiently scientific. Although senior Faculty members admit that radicals ask important questions about the capitalist system, they argue that these questions are unanswerable and outside the scope of conventional economics. Some, but not all, argue that any questions about the socio-political context in which economic activity takes place should be left entirely to sociologists and political scientists...