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Still, their joint disdain for the seniorSenator remains the driving force in bothcampaigns...
Instead, the Harvard faculty insists on projecting its hopelessly superannuated Weltenschauung onto current political and social realities. The visceral disdain for the letters CIA--or indeed the entire military establishment--has reached comic dimensions on our campus, a vestige of a political sensibility that in the rest of the country has gone the way of the eight-track tape...
Lately, of course, this playful disdain for California has been tempered by sympathy. Mother Nature has dealt the state a series of blows, and Americans who always looked with contempt on the flaky, arrogant attitude of Californians have paused to shake their heads slowly and feel sorry for the "spaceheads" out West...
...Core's unique combination of tediousness and superficiality, however, can easily be matched by the sheer disdain for students which characterizes the teaching and organization of many introductory science courses. Some bad lectures are excusable--perhaps the world's greatest scientists are not the best explicators of basic material. Nevertheless, students paying $25,000 a year deserve better than to be kept waiting for three hours because their lab has only one mass spectrometer. They deserve more than lab TFs unaware of the course's syllabus and problem sets that routinely require knowledge of reactions not yet taught in lecture...
This eclectic slate has the Brandon brand: audacious, often innovative, sometimes tacky, always commercial. This was the man who could nurture a "quality" show such as Hill Street Blues while singing the praises of Punky Brewster. "He has an absolute disdain for anything intellectual," says one less-than-admiring colleague. "He'd rather eat hamburger than steak." Yet in a world of slick network suits, Tartikoff has always been one of the most articulate, thoughtful and candid programmers around...