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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feeling uncomfortable in Cambridge's doctrinaire liberal climate, the conservative Schlesinger took a teaching post at the University of Virginia, where he wrote a book titled The Political Economy of National Security. It caught the eye of top executives at the Rand Corp., the U.S.'s premier think tank, who hired Schlesinger as a senior staff member. He later became director of strategic studies. At Rand, Schlesinger proved, as one colleague recalls, that "he could out-McNamara Mc-Namara"-then the cerebral Defense Secretary and systems analyst par excellence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: MR. ENERGY: DOING THE DOABLE -AND MORE | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...limited examinations--to take a better look at the whole patient. Primary care physicians can also add an understanding of the individual patient's personality, and the patient's life outside the hospital or clinic. Medicine is looking back to realize that a friendly ear and a sympathetic eye can sometimes do as much to keep a patient in good health as the most expensive and sophisticated equipment...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Making It Better | 3/31/1977 | See Source »

...current Loeb production of War and Peace, the trembling of Russian society in the face of the Napoleonic Wars is staged in the historian's limbo of order and chaos, at the interface of the sloping stage of destiny and the flat, eye-level platform of action. But whereas Tolstoy flashed light on the everyday existence of ordinary men and women, what drama there is in the adaptation, first performed in 1955 in Berlin, must be released in a series of stunning special effects simulating the horrors of war from above. The peculiar predicament of characters adhering fiercely to free...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Grand Delusions | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

...after the curtain goes up. Like a commanding general surveying a battle from his horse atop a hill, the Narrator is both involved with and separated from the action. Consistently drawing the lessons to be learned from the playing out of the scenes, the Narrator is the omniscient, controlling eye Tolstoy wished to, but knew he could...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Grand Delusions | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

...felt a "bit out of place," uncomfortable in the young and couple-dominated crowd that descended upon the dilapidated Harvard Square Theater moviehouse to see the much-discussed nude revue that opened this particular night. "I never believed it could be happening--right in front of my own eyes," he muttered, shaking his head during intermission, still stuck to his ant's-eye-view fifth-row-aisle seat. "Ah, the nudity you get used to--but the whole thing. It's pretty booooold...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: A Sucker Bored Every Minute | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

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