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...seems that Rudenstine's use of thepresidency is no accident--he was chosen for hisconciliatory and ego-less style by the corporationin...
Pampered, patronized and paternally cherished, such a student receives no opportunity to develop a conception of any reality outside of one solely populated by self-validating reflections. Even socially, she noted, students here seek administrative ego-support, referencing one student's now-famous appeal to the Dean of Students, published in The New York Times, to ban homework on the weekends. (The Crimson, you may recall, proclaimed earlier this semester that no student should have to do homework on a Friday night...
...antithesis of the sort of ego-driven Washington bureau chief who stepped all over his reporters," says James McCartney, a 25-year Knight Ridder veteran columnist and reporter who worked under Boyd. "He was the best editor I ever...
Buckley's judgment is more complex in The Redhunter, an ingeniously symmetrical drama of the origins and psychology of communism and anticommunism. He has invented a young alter ego, Harry Bontecou, who goes to work for Joe McCarthy (an only lightly novelized version of the real Senator) and turns out to have been fathered by a secret onetime English communist. Buckley offers not so much an ideological evaluation of McCarthy as a portrait of a live character and force of nature--country-boy chicken farmer, charmer, weasel, patriot, bully, loose cannon and for all that, the spokesman for a valid...
...antithesis of the sort of ego-driven Washington bureau chief who stepped all over his reporters," says James McCartney, a 25-year Knight Ridder veteran columnist and reporter who worked under Boyd. "He was the best editor I ever...