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...play, its sturdy, unfaltering heart, resides in three clearly autobiographical figures. The narrator-hero Lee (Peter Evans) is the young Miller on an ardent quest of selfdiscovery. His father Moe (John Randolph) is a proud man who has followed the immigrant path to affluence, only to suffer the humiliating descent to penury. Miller has always been an astute observer of how a man's dignity is emasculated when he loses his economic self-respect, and Ran dolph is shatteringly poignant in this role...
...will pack Harvard's hallowed Yard to march, to gawk, or to enter the "company of educated men and women." The ritual has long since hardened into a sturdy tradition. As Samuel Eliot Morison writes in his history of Harvard, Thomas Aquinas migh recognize today a lineal descent from the Commencement ceremonies he often attended in the 12th century--even then, they were marked by caps and gowns, Latin orations and general confusion...
...indirectly, in the formulation of policy, either through the study groups or perhaps the nation's ubiquitous, highly effective industrial associations. Their job is to lobby the interests of member corporations before the government, a task eased by a bit of Japanese back-scratching known as amakudari-literally, descent from heaven. It refers to the practice whereby retiring top bureaucrats are quickly hired as top executives of the companies they once regulated. Yusuke Kashiwagi, a former Finance Ministry official, is now president of the Bank of Tokyo; Eimei Yamashita, a former trade official, is a managing director of Mitsui...
...question has daunted anthropologists ever since 1871, when Charles Darwin grappled with it in his The Descent of Man. How did the puny early ancestor of modern man defend himself against predators? More than 3½ million years ago, he stood only 120 cm to 140 cm (48 in. to 56 in.), too short to wield a heavy club effectively. For another million years or so, his brain was not developed enough to conceive of fashioning stone weapons. Yet despite the presence of far more powerful four-legged adversaries on the African savannas, he survived. Now a Dutch zoologist, Adriaan...
...past month, what may have been seen by some as sudden inappropriate expressions of anger on the part of Third World students have in fact been natural outburst of long-submerged frustration. As we see oppressed people in the nations from which we descent shaking off the humiliating yolk of western domination world-wide, we draw strength for our struggles. Our perspective is truly Third World. As our pride grows, so does our anger at the ignorance and insensitivity of the larger community at Harvard. We will not continue to suppress this feeling...