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...annual budgetary fights with Dean Bender were invariably as lively as they were cordial, and I recall no year in which he protested my eventual decisions; few Harvard men will attribute his silence to timidity. Moreover, each year I reported to the Faculty our use of unrestricted money for financial aid (a policy begun by Mr. Buck, against all tradition), and I do not recall that a single colleague ever "selfishly" protested those allocations. It does no service to Dean Bender's last report to set up a false issue of faculty selfishness on this point...
...CRIMSON's relations with the Faculty had become overly cordial, and the paper showed signs of becoming a sort of independent house-organ. To remedy situation, the Confidential Guide To Freshmen Courses was born, which left some professors less than enthusiastic about freedom of the collegiate press...
...away; it was dying long before he was born. But the diplomatic service is in many ways one of the world's most conservative institutions. That is the reason that what occurs at conference tables and Embassy cocktail parties has had so little effect on events. American diplomats established cordial relations with men as important as themselves. The old world of personal diplomacy in which gentlemen reached equitable settlements of remote matters has little relationship to the world in which men kill and die for their livelihood...
Modest Hope. Though cordial, out of necessity, to Red China ("I have eaten rice with Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung"), Prince Sihanouk deals roughly with Cambodia's native Communists, who, he says bluntly, wish "to destroy" him because he will not practice "onesided neutrality" in the manner of Laos' Red Prince Souphanouvong. His desire to preserve Cambodian neutrality now takes the form of wanting the West to be stronger, for he believes that Communism is on the rise in Southeast Asia, and he is eager to find a counterbalance...
...notes complaining of a Berlin Chancellery official who wanted special help in disposing of some people he found particularly irksome: "This is the most important shop in the entire Reich, and here this uncle asks me whether he could have a few trains. And he is very courteous and cordial, because he wants to stoke the stove with a few idiots...