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After an initial uncertainty about his career plans--and a sojourn in Paris as in Fullbright scholar--Bok decided on a career in teaching, and embarked on scholarship in labor law, an endeavor that was sidetracked temporarily in 1968 when he was named Law School Dean. That administrative digression was virtually made permanent two-and-a-half years later, when, after more than a six-month search, the governing Corporation tapped the 40-year-old Bok as Harvard's 25th president...
Consider the application of this process to the Harvard grading system. A large committee of students and faculty might endeavor to insure fair distribution of grades. For why should grading, a measure vital to the college student, be left to the whims of teaching fellows? No longer would a section leader simply determine a grade by analysis of a student's work, but each grade would be subjected to rigorous verification and justification. The committee would consider the difficulty of paper topics a student undertakes, the availability of books in area libraries related to that topic, and the complexity...
...French and the German. In the tiny maid's room that serves as his office, near the Luxembourg Gardens, Manheim has produced inventive English versions of some of Europe's most difficult writers, including Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Günter Grass. Manheim's most recent endeavor: a canny rendering of The Weight of the World, an elliptical memoir by Austrian Playwright Peter Handke...
...requires a heart of stone to keep a straight face at the passing of Little Sophie, and neither the script nor the acting aids in that endeavor. Nor does the picture's style. One would like to think that when a film embraces the conventions of 1950s imagery (blasted tree trunks standing starkly against a battlefield's orange sky, gauzily veiled glimpses of, yes, dens of iniquity) and symbolic set decoration (the wretched excesses of an aesthete's salon contrasted with the too tasteful austerity of an intellectual's garret), it intends an ironic comment...
...others had tried and failed, two of them losing their lives in the endeavor. But the danger involved made the remarkable voyage all the more appealing to Joe Kittinger, 56. Last week, after more than three days of drifting through the clouds, Kittinger became the first to make a solo balloon flight across the Atlantic, setting a new long-distance record of more than 3,500 miles in the process. A three-tour Viet Nam War pilot who was a P.O.W. for eleven months, the former Air Force colonel and longtime adventurer once jumped out of a balloon...