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Pierre L. van den Berghe...
...cover subjects were less effusive-or perhaps just more modest. Senator McCarthy thought his portrait "captured the sort of impressionistic spirit of 1968." Judge Sirica admitted to having a framed copy of his own TIME portrait in his den ("My law clerks gave it to me"), but General Westmoreland had a different attitude. "My house is a home, not a museum," he declared. "Besides, any recognition I got was attributable to my troops, who did a magnificent job." And Lady Bird Johnson did not want to talk about her por trait at all. She graciously steered conversations to the exhibit...
...Federal Government sometimes uses its tax dollars to underwrite academic research that might charitably be described as frivolous. Among recipients of such largesse is Sociologist Pierre van den Berghe of the University of Washington, who used part of a $97,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to underwrite a report by his researcher, George Primov, titled, "The Peruvian Brothel as Sexual Dispensary and Social Arena...
Senator William Proxmire last week gave the study his Golden Fleece Award for "the biggest, most ridiculous or most ironic waste of taxpayers' money." Van den Berghe, the author of Academic Gamesmanship, professed to be pleased, saying: "My reputation in the academic community will be enhanced...
This made the United Flock very mad, and they ran around the yard bleating loudly, and lit the grass on fire, and took over the holy oak and the duck pond and Roso the bear's lair and Archie the badger's house and John the fox's den and the nests of the council of owls, and fired all the goats, and told the sheep they could have hot apples again and they could eat whatever kind of food they wanted and could live wherever they wanted to. Then the United Flock sold the Aparkside rocks, and declared Vard...