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...pity. For Caro's fine portrait has a troubling mystery at its heart. Moses' avowed aim was public service. There is no evidence that he tried to enrich himself at public expense. He pursued power to be free to do what he regarded as good works. Caro asserts, and the record seems to bear out, that power eventually became an end in itself. But, a sheer arrogance and the difficulty of getting things done aside, the book never explains...
...further promote and enrich the fund, Revell Inc. has started to make a series of plastic model kits of endangered animals such as the white rhinoceros and the California condor; each kit contains a leaflet describing the plight of the animal and the fund's efforts to help. Says Christopher Dann, the fund's deputy director: "Besides paying us a royalty, Revell is allowing us to start a dialogue with 800,000 children and to build a constituency for the future...
...school in prewar Japan. "Teachers in the main were well trained and the system, on the academic side, did well," he recalled last week. "But it did far better in brainwashing pupils in the cult of emperor worship. The whole six-year compulsory education was dedicated to fukoku kyohei [enrich the nation, strengthen soldiers]. Boys in the class were shaven-pated like Japanese soldiers in their barracks. Like soldiers, too, they were expected to snap to attention each time the teacher dropped that sacred word, tenno [emperor]. They did-like so many Orwellian robots...
...Third World committee has also called on Bok to have the institute sponsor workshops and summer research programs in order to maintain ties to the Harvard black community, another good suggestion. The University has the chance to establish an institute that could instruct and enrich the academic lives of black students at Harvard, and it shouldn't create instead a remote, pure-research institute that will help only the scholars who work...
...addition of the bar made it possible to live inside the Brattle building for "an indefinite period of time," albeit on a liquid diet, a Crimson critic noted in 1957) but the people lining up for the first Bergman and Bogart festivals led real lives that the movies helped enrich...