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Dean Rosovsky announces that he is leaving Harvard to assume the presidency of the Hebrew University in Jeruselem. Reached for comment, he says, "I'm sick of that undergraduate education dreck. Let Derek deal with...
...good for an actor's ego as a hit, and Dreyfuss's ego, which Jaws had punctured and which Papp had exploded, returned to its normal enormous size. He now calls Steven Spielberg, the director of Jaws, a genius, and admits that the movie was not the "dreck" he once thought...
...banker") and doctrinaire populism ("They are making a desert and calling it a balanced budget") further reduce the authors' credibility. Invective obscures insight. John Lindsay was not merely an inadequate mayor but "a volunteer cuckold of the permanent government." The clubhouse crowd is condemned as "back-room dreck," though in fact it produces some good administrators...
...Washington Post is an ordinary American paper that willed itself to be better. It still carries much of the standard dreck-lovelorn columns, horoscopes, beauty hints-as well as 25 comics. But to this compost heap the Post has added solid and penetrating reporting and an engaging flair...
Hoberman stated clearly his disdain for most of what is written about the subject. Out of all the sports literature written, he said, one tenth of one tenth of one per cent is good. The rest is "dreck...