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Thir, we wouldn't call NASA itself "badly mismanaged." NASA has a lot of good systems engineers, who really want to do their part to bring about a space economy. But when it comes to communicating the role of the space program, in a larger context, or in analyzing its economic impact, both NASA and OMB have been negligent or worse...
Benson, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, came to Harvard in 1959. He is an expert in medieval literature and is the author of Art and Tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the co-author of The Literary Context of Chaucer's Fabliaux...
Such an attitude, when put in either the present or the historical context of the status of women at the University and in society at large, resounds with naivete and immaturity. Is it a joke that women have been discriminated against in education and in many meaningful and important occupations? Is it funny that many intellectually gifted women fail to manifest their talents because they (rightly) fear social rejection? Or that the University perpetuates the inequalities of society by a lopsided admissions policy? Or that until recently the law would not allow women control over their own bodies? Or that...
...TITLE of the book reveals something about the inner Epps. He professes concern for the broad range of problems facing black people, but limits his work for black improvement exclusively to the Harvard context. Although his service as Boston coordinator of the 1963 March on Washington might suggest that this was not always true, Epps sees his present role within these limits. "I've pretty much said to myself that if I'm to make a contribution to the development of blacks in this country it should be strictly within this institution," he says...
...limits on Plumb's approach are obvious, though, from this collection of essays written over a span of almost ten years. He makes an effort to place the hippies in context, and it is a very restrained and civilized approach--placing them in historical perspective, giving them roots understandable to outsiders and making them less frightening for being so understandable. But only six years afterwards even his concern with the movement seems dated, and datedness is a particularly unfortunate failing in an essay that puts its subject in a historical context spanning six centuries...