Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fuentes, as in his others works, does not develop his characters any better than he explains why they exist or what exactly they are doing. Maldonado is the only three-dimensional protagonist--a confused middle-aged stud who resembles a Velasco painting. Maldonado's triad of women--the seductive Mary, loyal Rebecca and unattainable Sarah--fill the traditional female novelistic roles of whore, mother and virgin. Maldonado's purposeless orders come from two spies, the nationless Timon and the clove-smelling Lebanese Ayub, and a Mexican economics professor Bernstein and the bullying Director General. The only thing which binds...
...setting, constraints, and personal context in which opposite number operates." Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, told his School's Visiting Committee on March 14, 1977, "The natural alliance for a professional school of government should be the business school. We expect that the good relations which presently exist will be substantially improved by the proximity...
...University came together for a momentous nine-day strike--nine days of the most dynamic political activity this University has seen. Just as the police bust was the last vain attempt of the Harvard administration to restore its own vision of a Harvard that had quite simply ceased to exist, the strike that followed it marked a startling new beginning for students at this school--proof that students can make themselves heard, even in the massive bureaucracy at the center of the Yard...
...compact" to which Bok refers in fact does not-exist. This reality may circumscribe a university's independence, but that fact underscores the importance of negotiating the reality honesty. A university guided by the myth of a "compact" really places its independence in peril...
Says Stevens: "The charge has been made so often that the University has no policy. It has a very clear policy. It has one of the few clear policies that exist at any university-type investor in this country...