Word: correct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read with interest your profile on Professor John Finley, and as one whom Mr. Reed (Eliot House, '69) consulted, I would like to correct a quotation which I myself gave him. As it appears in your Profile, Mr. Finley described a thesis as "the length and shadow of a temperament." What he in fact said was "the lengthened shadow of a temperament," a line which typifies hand-homely his well-known understanding of student efforts, besides being an extraordinarily elegant example of iambic pentameter...
...volunteers would be a poor man's army. But there is no reason why the army should reflect the basic inequities of American society any less than other jobs or institutions. Already the rich are freed from ditch-digging, construction work, hard labor of any sort. Are we to correct this inequity by conscripting people into the ditches? Highways, after all, are as much of a national necessity as wars...
Next fall, however, the Faculty study groups will be given higher priority when a director of studies takes office. If Henry Fairlie is correct, and no one in the Institute has openly denied it, Francis Bator, a former professor of Economics at M.I.T. and national security aide to President Johnson, will assume the post...
Bator, if the rumors are correct, will be in charge of administering and coordinating the program, which, in Neustadt's words, "is probably the most important thing we're doing." These groups, ideally, will involve the Fellows, bring visitors to the Institute for short periods of time, and may even furnish the topics for the undergraduate seminars...
...This novel tells a story with a beginning, a middle and an end," the publishers note hopefully on the dust jacket and, surprisingly, they are correct. Though the book contains some formidable obfuscations and heavy-handed symbolism. Peter Israel writes sharp well-paced prose, and he has constructed his story as skillfully as a good mystery writer. What he has written, in fact, is a metaphysical mystery in which psychiatry plays the role of an enigmatic sleuth...