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...classroom, Dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy lectured about the importance of U.S. involvement in Indochina and the relevance of the domino theory. In Government 180, "Principles of International Politics," then-associate professor Henry A. Kissinger '50 told an overflow crowd of 350 that "students sitting at my feet flatter...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: When Camelot Came to Harvard | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...second story Singer read. "A Piece Of Advice," was a more serious and religious piece that featured a man trying to control his wild temper. The man learned from a Hasidic holy man to flatter even those people he really wanted to insult...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Nobel Author Singer Speaks At Sanders | 11/6/1984 | See Source »

...cancer-ridden daughter, played by Debra Winger, would get most of the sympathy, and Jack Nicholson's breezy, boozy ex-astronaut would get most of the laughs. Even more perilous for an actress past 40, Aurora had to age, painfully, gracelessly. Unlike stars who demand that the camera flatter them, the vibrant MacLaine made herself look ravaged, the neglected ruin of a beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Year Of Her Lives | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...most amazing 60 years in history? You flatter yourself. Merely consider the first 60 years A.D. Their effect has been felt for nearly 2,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 24, 1983 | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...predicated solely on the way his work anticipated the desires of later painters. The paintings, seen in themselves, do not look so very flat anyway. As Art Historian Anne Coffin Hanson points out in one of the catalogue's searching essays, they reproduce flatter than they are. In reality, "surface qualities come into play . . . It is as though the artist had discovered a means of simultaneously combining touch and sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Most Parisian of Them All | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

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