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...followers, Charles de Gaulle was nothing less than "twice the savior of his country," and even today the Gaullists are reluctant to entrust the telling of the precious legend to anyone who might tamper with it. Nobody knows this better than French Film Makers Alain de Sédouy and André Harris, who (along with Director Marcel Ophuls) collaborated in 1969 on the superb documentary The Sorrow and the Pity, an exhaustive and exhausting (4½-hour-long) study of a French city under the Nazi Occupation (TIME, March...
...would seem daring on Bok's part to entrust Harvard's most volatile issue to a subcommittee with which he says he will have nothing to do. But there is no daring. The subcommittee is made up of the Treasurer of the College and three Corporation members -- a businessman, a physics professor and a lawyer. George Bennett is the most conservative Corporation member, and his successor as Treasurer is not likely to back divestment of Gulf stock. The subcommittee's most liberal member. Hugh Calkins, in a political and professional reflection...
...facilitates an escape from their repression while promising the persistence of a social order in which they believe. Theirs is a war against both the rich and the urban poor, the activist workers and students, and the wealthy urban and suburban capitalists. The willingness of the paranoid elderly to entrust themselves to Marjoe recalls that scene in Cabaret in which a member of Hitler's Youth teaches the old men in a German beer garden the words to "Tommorrow Belongs...
...fact is," the Austin report concludes, "that the universities are simply not very good at reaching collective decisions on questions with social or political overtones." So, to forfend this fragile galaxy of genial political incompetents from overtaxing their powers of decision, the Austin report would entrust the power to formulate University moral investment policy to a "single officer of substantial standing, with a small staff, who would invite and sift suggestions from all members of the University community with respect to what might be termed the nonfinancial aspects of the University's role as investor...
...wonderful governmental enterprises cannot effectively deliver the mail, how can we entrust to them the delivery of our health care? There are no automated vending machines to dispense appendectomies after...