Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discuss with Mr. Hildreth the hypothetical question that if, at some time in the future, the number of men in the Freshman Class was reduced by 300 or 400 men our diversity would be affected since we would be cutting back in most categories. As examples, I said that there might be fewer Harvard sons and fewer men from disadvantaged backgrounds; but that, in my opinion, we would not reduce the number of top scholars even in a smaller class. Sincerely, John P. Reardon
...prospective science majors. Men and women have in the past drifted from the sciences at the same rate. Even if this year's figures are atypical and do not signify current trends--and there is no evidence to show that is true--Bok doesn't bother to discuss why women have avoided the sciences. Medical schools and engineering firms have traditionally discriminated against women applicants. Parents have discouraged their daughters from entering these fields. If Harvard has difficulty finding potential female scientists, it should recruit them. But Bok's second argument, like his first, ignores current data and, relying...
...learned to do business with just about anybody. As he said about himself last week: "I'm so little understood. There's so little in my past to indicate what I think or believe. If people knew me well, they'd realize that on many of the things they discuss about me so avidly, I haven't any views...
...Washington, Key Biscayne and the Western White House at San Clemente. Nixon sometimes telephones Connally three or four times a day. Says one White House aide: "The President is simply in awe of him." Adds another staffer: "Connally is one of the few whom Nixon is willing to discuss a lot of things with?politics, foreign relations, domestic problems...
...history of a gesture first used by Harry Carey and later mimicked by John Wayne. Far more interesting than the critical narrative are four interviews interspersed with glimpses of Ford movies. Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda are all in their 60s; they are juvenile leads when they discuss the director with terror and awe. Better still is Ford himself regarding Bogdanovich with rue and deflecting questions about his aesthetics with "Yeah," "No" and "Cut." Ford knows what Wordsworth knew: "We murder to dissect." Damned if he will assist this callow intern in his operation...