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...Many of the Black scholars that the Rosovsky committee talked with said they were skeptical about the value of forming a separate department to study African-American history," recalls former Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford. "There were very few great Black scholars out there who wanted to identify their race with their principal teaching responsibilities...
Rather than providing a common experience as was originally envisioned, Gen Ed became a distribution requirement drawn from a list of non-departmental offerings. These classes often focused on obscure topics like "The Scandinavian Cinema" and "The Films of John Ford...
Kissinger's tone shifts from academic to defensive when he discusses Vietnam and his own turn on the world stage, as National Security Adviser and then Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford. He pounds away at the naivete of the peace movement, the hypocrisy of the Establishment and the perfidy of the North Vietnamese. And he dismisses the notion that America's national interests would have been better served if Nixon had set an early withdrawal date (and in the process lands a little jab -- "Would that history were as simple as journalism" -- at the contrary treatment...
...team is coming together really well," freshman Missy Ford said. "After a week we had amazing improvement. We played much better and have lots of depth. We're really looking forward to Easterns but they will be really hard because lots of teams are really close...
...with dismay. Wreszin dutifully portrays the man and his times but too often paraphrases rather than quotes directly from a writer whose style was the essence of jaunt and spark. (In fairness, Wreszin does have the good sense to cite Macdonald's lead of a New Yorker profile: "The Ford Foundation is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some...