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Says Kurland: "There is a revelation of problems an ordinary student doesn't know exist. Grant is a master of the Socratic method, superb in dialogue." He characteristically makes a point by bashing down his glasses so hard that they sometimes break. There is some disagreement about his low, deep voice; Kurland says it has the "sort of cadence and vibrancy of a Welsh poet." Students call Gilmore "the Grunt" because of his habit of harrumphing, and talking into his mustache. One wisecracks that "it's been claimed that he only educates 25% of his students; the rest...
...Harvard Policy Committee) has failed to establish a working relationship with students. Perhaps because of a pluralistic student body composed of many potential leaders or perhaps because the faculty has encouraged de-centralization by refusing to allow the "official" student government any meaningful, prestigious role, there now exist at Harvard a plethora of organizations all fulfilling functions which are in the domain of the student government at other institutions. These include House Committees, the Harvard Undergraduate Athletic Council, the Freshman Council, the CRIMSON, ad hoc committees such as the recently established Student-Faculty Advisory Council...
Everyone has heard about balance-of-payments deficits - the amount by which a country's outgo exceeds its in come in foreign trade and international finance. Rarely mentioned is the pleasanter side: balance-of-payments surpluses. Yet they exist, cropping up in highly unexpected places, sometimes for unique reasons. The Irish Republic last year enjoyed its first surplus - about $6,000,000- since 1961, thanks greatly to rising exports of textiles, food, refined petroleum and metal ores. Impoverished Tanzania achieved a $28 million payments surplus in 1966, despite its per capita annual income of about $65, because administrative bottlenecks...
...dealings with language breakdown, as well as in being prolific, Warhol is our Godard. But where Godard treats subjects with increasingly pedantic seriousness, Warhol still makes grimly hilarious comedies. It is fashionable to accuse Warhol of making identical films for fun and profit, but intelligent artists do not exist in a state of perpetual atrophy, and Warhol is no exception. Though his current style is simple, it is not simplistic, and I have yet to lose interest in a Warhol composition for as long a time as he chooses to leave it on the screen. His recent experiment with color...
Some surgery is very dangerous if certain anatomic formations exist in a diseased heart, he said. The direct view of the heart, available through the fiber optics instrument, gives vital information without risking dangerous surgery...