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...Through first-hand testimony and accounts of those who knew him well, The Ballad of John and Yoko admirably describes Lennon's battle. All the bitterness of the Beatles break-up pours from the "Lennon Remembers" interview. Cheat Flippo provides voyeurs with a delightful inside look at Lennon in "retirement." And Robert Christian enthralls with his inimitable analysis of Lennon's songs...
Professionally, Nagy has been quite active in both student-Faculty and Faculty-administration relations, serving on the Faculty Council and the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE). He says his two years on the council have been especially interesting because "you can see first-hand how not just the Faculty but the administration is thinking about the important issues that confront the University." As a member of the CUE and as chairman of the Committee on Folklore and Mythology, Nagy says he has been able to work towards his goal of greater student-Faculty contact...
Chinabound is anecdotes. It is the "oriental serutability" of "Ed Reischauer," the six-week bike ride before the first visit to China, encounters with Chou En-Lai, and rounding up Chinese journalists at their homes by jeep for a Douglas Mac Arthur press conference which was suddenly rescheduled. But it's also much more. Fairbank infuses his personal tales with the kind of clairvoyance which has distinguished him as a compassionate commentator as well as pioneer historian. With his first-hand familiarity with the U.S. effort to aid Chiang Kai-shek's regime, he describes his concern for increasingly confused...
...time, this space has been devoted to idle speculation on what it would be like to be a fly on the wall during some of President Reagan's discussions with aides, advisers and family. Every now and then, though, Reagan provides an opportunity for the public to observe first-hand the complexities, or lack thereof, of the presidential thought process...
Ward, president of Amherst College until 1979, picked up first-hand knowledge of the intricacies of Massachusett's contract awarding system after his appointment by former Gov. Michael Dukakis three years ago to head an investigative commission on state-funded construction...