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Unfortunately, if what holds true for a generation also holds true for a university, Harvard will have earned itself a reputation as a non-productive, non-inspiring institution. Whether out of disinterest or disfavor, Harvard has done little to encourage interest or participation in the arts...
...ship of Labor, Wilson has tried to straddle the ideological divide within the party and has particularly tried to avoid any kind of confrontation with the trade unions. In recent weeks, however, Britain's grim, almost apocalyptic economic situation (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) has forced him to risk their disfavor. When Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey presented his tightfisted budget in the Commons last month, he candidly blamed Britain's briskly accelerating 25% inflation on union wage-increase settlements, which are now averaging 30% annually...
Writer Ambrose Bierce once observed that "the gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." Yet in today's skittish economic climate, most businessmen can only view with envy the profitable growth of the gaming empire headed by William Fisk Harrah, 63. It includes two glossy Nevada casinos-one in Reno, one in Lake Tahoe-along with two hotels containing 19 food-service areas and 18 cocktail bars. In the fiscal year ended in June, Harrah's Inc. of Reno, one of two gambling operations listed on the New York Stock Exchange...
Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky is historically a fitting complement to Ballad of a Soldier. Made in 1938, it represents Eisenstein's effort to re-integrate himself with the Stalin regime after a long period of disfavor. Alexander Nevsky is in every sense a one-dimensional film. Its theme is patriotism, and its message, directed in no uncertain terms at Nazi Germany, is that Russia will ward off any attempt at conquest. The film takes place in 1242, when combined Russian armies under the leadership of Prince Alexander Nevsky, defeated the invading German force. Eisenstein uses these events...
Donald B. Rice, 35, took over the Rand Corp., the prototypical think tank, three years ago, at a time when the outfit was in deep disfavor with the Government because a former employee named Ellsberg had pinched some classified papers from its files. Young as he was, Rice was highly experienced: he became Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense just eight years out of college, and a year later, in 1970, was an assistant director at the Office of Management and Budget. Rice has sought to balance Rand's emphasis on war games and other national security matters by expanding...