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...visitor conceded that Andropov was "very courteous," but went on to describe him as "a modernist, in the sense of a computer, in the sense of precision of word and gesture." The party chief, said the Frenchman, made "a cold, objective presentation" that was "extraordinarily devoid of the passion and human warmth" he encountered elsewhere in the Soviet Union. Others in the Cheysson party described Andropov as looking considerably older than his pictures, or his age, 68, might suggest. They noted that the Soviet leader was tired when the meetings began and that he seemed to have lost weight...
...graduates are educated? Does the Core curriculum as it is presently conceived fulfill Dean Rosovsky's two objectives for a liberal arts curriculum? Unfortunately. Harvard's Core curriculum has betrayed liberal arts education transforming it into technical training. The Core leaves students masters of scholarly techniques and habits but devoid of the spirit for intellectual inquiry into their human condition. Only by re-instituting a real "core" curriculum--against powerful departmental interests--can liberal education become a reality at Harvard again...
...number of other Black professions also constitutes a disgraceful underrepresentation of the number of Blacks in this nation. Of the 2678 "professionals" throughout Harvard University, only 117 of these professionals are Black (4 percent). Almost half of the University's 10 schools are utterly devoid of Black professionals, since most of these Blacks are Central Administration...
...Christmas symbol so devoid of content that it could not possibly offend anyone is probably what is needed. But nobody would be interested...
Andropov's foreign debut may have seemed devoid of drama, but his low-key performance merited close attention. Said a French Sovietologist: "Basically, there is nothing "new, but there is a much more skillful use of language, adapted to the different audiences to which it is addressed." Long accustomed to monotone and heavyhanded Kremlin pronouncements, Western leaders are fast learning that in the future they will have to evaluate messages from Moscow with increasing sophistication...