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Shopping in the Harvard Square area and taking occasional trips to the Central Square Cinema can be a student's only contact with Cambridge. But for those who are interested, its form of government permits an outsider (and you will always be an outsider) to observe firsthand the complexities of conflict politics...
...weapon of revenge-a Western-style revolver-is provided by the grateful realtor whose development Bronson saved. A pressing, almost daily need to use it is supplied by British Director Winner and West Coast Writer Mayes, who offer a vision of New York City existence based less on firsthand experience than on old Johnny Carson-Dick Cavett monologues about getting home from the studio. Everywhere Bronson turns in a trash-and graffiti-glutted environment, he sees an old man mugged, a car being burglarized-and his gun is quick. Pretty soon he is stalking the gloomiest streets, the dimmest parks...
Active-Negative. Psychiatrists are outraged by such remote-control analysis. Protests Harvard's Dr. Robert Coles: "This is the most blatant kind of psychiatric reductionism. It's hard enough to interpret a person's motives or reasons even firsthand." Dr. Jacob Swartz of Boston, spokesman for the American Psychoanalytic Association, says: "To form a valid opinion, one should see the patient...
...Russians blamed the Nazis for these atrocities, but as an officer in the Polish underground then, I received firsthand, from Red Cross investigators on-the-spot information-later corroborated by a U.S. congressional committee-that the massacre had in fact been perpetrated by the Soviets. It is noteworthy that in the Nuremberg trials, Nazi leaders, at Soviet insistence, were accused of the murders, and despite the presence of a Soviet judge on the tribunal, they were never convicted...
George F. Will, 33. Tired of teaching politics, Will went to Washington in 1970 to watch the workings of government firsthand. He was an obscure Congressional aide until two years ago, when he signed on as Washington editor of National Review. He started a column in the Washington Post soon afterward, and almost overnight his perceptive political commentary made him a leader of conservative opinion. A native of Champaign, Ill., he studied at Trinity, Oxford and Princeton, and taught at Michigan State and the universities of Illinois and Toronto. Among the first conservative leaders to break with President Nixon, Will...