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...trustee of the fund and a campus gay rights activist said yesterday they thought the University may have decided not to take the George Segal sculpture because it dealt with homosexuality; the head of the Fogg Museum and an alumnus involved in negotiations on the sculpture said Harvard refused the offer to avoid involvement in a New York City political squabble over the work...
...Running and Fighting needed was a thorough editing by a publisher who had dealt with first-time authors before. Brett Fromson is onto something in Washington, and his subject merits the more serious analysis a longer work might have allowed. This one falters when he confuses imagination with observation...
...forum, the second in a series of ten to be given in the next two weeks, dealt specifically with Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) actions in Latin America...
...fourth speaker at the forum was Stephen Kinzer, the Latin American correspondent for the Boston Globe and author of the soon-to-be-published book, "Bitter Fruit," an account of the CIA-backed coup in Guatemala in 1954. Kinzer dealt specifically with the U.S. involvement in Guatemala, giving historical background and precedent for current CIA affairs...
This was the rationale behind the recent publication of Nabokov's college lectures on Russian literature. Volume One of these notes, last year's Christmas special, dealt with English, French, and German masterpieces. It turns out that Nabokov knew a great deal more about Russian literature than about any other. Certainly he is more comfortable in this second volume. He is still, as always, petulant, self-indulgent, and pompous, and since Nabokov insists upon his own status in the Pantheon of literature--which was not so obvious when he was writing these lectures--he has made a conspicuous target...