Word: experts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty Discussion: "Education and Society: The Harvard Tradition." James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, will hold forth in Science Center B. Fondly known as "Captain Lock-em-Up," Wilson is an expert criminologist. The word briliant fits Wilson like on of the fancy suits he wears. So do the words conservative, archaic, and gradeslayer. Whatever, he'll be talking about how great Harvard is, and what a contribution it has made to society (yeah, and napalm was invented here, too), and so on. Skippable, although it might be intersting as a way of seeing how offical Harvard perceives itself...
...source insinuated that he may have run afoul of the Rumanian President's short-tempered but influential wife. Mole or not, Pacepa may be something less than an outstanding prize for the CIA. "A major defection from Bucharest is almost a contradiction in terms," says a U.S. intelligence expert. Because of its resolute independence from Soviet influence, Rumania is not privy to the most sensitive intelligence traffic between Moscow and its more compliant satellites. Nor is Pacepa apt to be well informed about the Soviet army, because his country has not permitted the Warsaw Pact to deploy troops...
...wrote battle stories. "I became an ace pulp writer," he recalls. "I wiped out whole armies. I wrote a story about an invasion in which I killed 100,000 men and then later read the statistics. There were only 7,000 killed. But in the process, I became an expert on World War II. I knew more than anybody because I read all the books." His editor, Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman, remembers his new writer "leaning back in his chair, a large cigar in his mouth, reading six books at once, three in each arm, like he was tasting food...
...racing sloop and skippered a minesweeper. For his most recent aquatic adventure, Charles, 29, tried wind surfing off the chilly Isle of Wight. Barefooted, he tried to balance on a sailing surfboard but landed again and again in the drink. What upset the royal balance? Harrumphed a British surfing expert: "On a bad day even the Prince of England doesn't stand a chance in hell of staying...
What Yates provides is a very cautious and narrowly limited range of realism, but within that range he is expert. He describes the anguish of a lumpy, unathletic student who later redeems himself by becoming editor of the school paper, after he has been stripped and abused sexually by a gang of healthy fools: "Grove was set free and ran to his room, and for hours after that, alone in the darkness, he lay wondering how he was going to live the rest of his life." This is acute and poignant; so is the author's evocation...