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Divestment is not just a moral issue; it is a political one. It is a question of where Harvard will vest its power: its legitimizing power, its image, and its economic power. It must be answered not by elegant intentions or phrases, but by action. Divestment is a relatively painless...
That was what everyone once said about Kingsley Amis. Now he finds himself being compared with Evelyn Waugh. "I'm flattered," Amis says, "but the analogy is misleading. Waugh wrote very elegant comedy. His people spoke beautifully. Compared with his works, mine look like grim documentaries. You know," he goes...
Bikini-clad women sipping vodka on an ocean liner in the Caribbean. Crates of computers being unloaded in Hong Kong harbor. A cruise ship offering three- month tours with elegant accommodations. These are not the images people conjure up when they think of the Soviet menace. But the Soviet Union...
Henry seems to grasp this reality, at least in theory. He writes in his introduction: "The real campaign is the string of public events that voters observe, not the hidden web of strategy memos and fund-raising dinners and portentous telephone calls." Bravo. The problem is, Henry doesn't follow...
Ulysses Grant sat on the porch and marched armies across his memory. He called them up through cocaine and morphine, through the pain in his throat, and into a perfect clarity of prose. He fought the war minutely all over again: Shiloh and Vicksburg, the slaughters of the Wilderness, Cold...