Word: detective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Fox's proposal to oust freshmen from the Quad is a scandalous attempt at wrecking one of the last alternative lifestyles at Harvard (is it paranoia, or do I detect the silhouette of the infamous 1-1-2 plan lurking at the sidelines, waiting for its cue?). The timing of the Administration's actions--reading and exam period securely bolting, or so they think, the doors to student concern and participation--epitomizes the slimy, macchiavellian, fetid, underhanded, unscrupulous and most questionable manner in which the Administration has traditionally managed to impose its bureaucratic wet-dreams upon the lives...
Nonetheless, observers in Moscow detect a distinct mellowness in some Brezhnev-dictated policies. Last month he passed word through outgoing Treasury Secretary William Simon to the President-elect that the Soviet Union has no intention of testing Carter in the early days of his Administration...
...cannot initially progress beyond his scholar's ability to detect analogies. His fears and fantasies begin to wrench him apart the same way ivy destroys a crumbling brick wall. He tries to escape the banality, sex and violence that Malraux called the components of our world. Yet enlightenment and peace of mind escape him as he declares: "My soul had not yet completed its reentry into my body after its long night out, alley-catting God knows where...
...book's bite comes, in fact, from a half-humorous debunking of out historical myths: Emerson got most of his ideas from his Unitarian cohorts, Fried smirkingly insinuates, and Benjamin ("Early to bed, early to rise") Franklin never rose until noon. More substantively, it's hard to detect any real difference between, for example, the imperialism for which Julian chides the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Stuart Rantoul Prescott's glorious paeans to "manifest destiny...
...body, but Karajan's music did have a new intensity and purposefulness to it. Indeed, Karajan seemed at the peak of his interpretive power. As the slender, autocratic figure took the podium, one missed the old athletic spring. But not in the music. In fact, one could not detect any of the attenuated striving for effect, rather than meaning, that has marred many of Karajan's recordings in the past five years...