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...Somerset's protegee, Miss Marion Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley). The diarist not only falls in love but also must struggle hopelessly to find some fresh way of describing his feelings: "Forgive a young man, a young fool, his ardours and ecstasies! I understand now that the world will only give ear to them in the mouth of genius...
...Oval Office in recent years was without such anger. John Kennedy thought TIME got too personal and ordered the entire Executive Branch not to speak to anyone from the magazine. That ban collapsed within eight hours: Attorney General Robert Kennedy took my call and talked my ear off. When he was President, Lyndon Johnson stalked me around a table roaring, "You're nothing but a whore for the Republican Party!" I'm sorry I could not get him to compare notes with Nixon. I hope one of them is wrong...
...Harbison. His music is approachably tonal without being obvious; a Harbison tune is less a hummable melody than a strongly profiled motif designed to forward the musical argument, not seduce the ear. His structures are sturdy,his orchestration is crisp and clean. Yet this is not the dread "Princeton School" music of baleful repute, the arid note spinning that often characterizes the works of Ivy League composers like Milton Babbitt. Harbison, who as a teenager played jazz piano and who at Harvard led the Bach Society Orchestra, is an academic with a heart...
...also had the opportunity to grip a javelin--it was a long perfectly aerodynamic spear. I hefted the javelin as if to throw it with the tip against my ear. I noticed that the weight was shifted mostly to the rear which made the javelin appear unbalanced. Possibly, this weight shift occurred in response to a 104.41-meter throw by a Polish athlete that sailed off the throwing surface and nearly hit a runner on the track...
Still more disturbing is that these debased arguments in defense of the protestors inexcusable tactics find a sympathetic ear among many members of the faculty and administration, who are therefore reluctant to punish them. This is what accounts for the fact that it has for some time been impossible to penalize this kind of behavior with anything like the degree of severity that it deserves and that would be necessary to deter it. If the penalty were losing one's Harvard degree, one can be sure there would be very few if any martyrs willing to pay such a price...