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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HIID opens up opportunities for people to pursue a career primarily oriented toward work abroad in the context of a University structure. Some HIID personnel have been named as institute fellows, who will be able to work as specialists or administrators within HIID while still being able to use the facilities and enrich the research and teaching of the University at large...
...Nixon to modify his hard-line stance. More over, Ford had concluded that his pledge to bind up the nation's wounds required a new approach. He explained: "You can't talk about healing unless you're going to use it in the broadest context." His choice of audience was equally deliberate. Said Ford: "I thought that the right audience would be an audience that might be difficult. It would have been a little cowardice, I think, if I'd picked an audience that was ecstatic...
Washington's second error was to appear to accept Makarios' successor, Terrorist Nikos Sampson. With his long record of violence against Turkish Cypriots, Sampson was clearly unacceptable to them and to Ankara. "In the context of Sampson," says Britain's former Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home, "the Turkish invasion was inevitable from the beginning." The third error was for Washington, in the days following the coup, to state publicly that the Turks on Cyprus deserved greater autonomy, a statement that, although true, looked to Turkey like an invitation to invasion. State Department officials now privately admit...
...works perched above it that objects like George Sugarman's 18-ft. Kite Castle, 1974, Alexander Calder's stabile or Robert Murray's pleated steel Windhover, 1969, become mere origami. They are gallery art, or at most museum-plaza art, scaled up and deprived of context...
...Maltese Falcon, the best detective movie ever made, plays this week beginning tomorrow at the Brattle Theater. Humphery Bogart is Sam Spade, cool, calm and marvelous. Mary Astor plays the shady woman, a sexist stereotyped role that is nonetheless irresistible in the context...