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Actually, the rhetorical lapsers in the report are scarce: Its foreword holds that Harvard's responsibility "is based upon moral commitment, enlightened self interest and the knowledge that today urban institutions neither can nor should live in isolation from their surrounding communities." A lofty notion, but not as vital to a Cambridge working man as the pledges which follow...
Elected Leader. Küng notes in his foreword that he was impelled to write the book because of the mass defection of Catholic priests-some 25,000 during the past eight years. This, and the end of the "third ineffectual bishops' synod since Vatican II," convinced him that it was once again time to nail his theses on the door of the Vatican. Küng admits that he cannot completely clarify the shape of a new Catholic ministry. "It used to be easy to draw a picture of a king," he says. "It took time until...
...foreword by CARL CARMER...
Taking Revenge? According to Prescott's foreword, the history is based on his personal knowledge as well as on information obtained from such " 'faceless' functionaries as interpreters, bodyguards, valets, cooks, waiters and chauffeurs." Even more bizarre, Morrison's introduction points out that Prescott, "a Chekhovian-looking character" with "a weary sense of defeat," fleshed out his historical material with imaginary dialogue and even occasional fictitious characters. Morrison obviously has some misgivings. "Often, I confess, I was unable to separate 'fact' from 'invention,' so deftly did Prescott weave them together to give...
...German citizenship, which had been lifted by the Nazis. Brandt, who is thin-sk'inned and sensitive, has often been called a "traitor" in West Germany for fleeing during the Nazi years. He argues that his background has helped Germany come to terms with itself. In the foreword of a forthcoming British edition of his early writings, Brandt declares: "I did not regard my fate as an exile as a blot on my copybook, but rather as a chance to serve that 'Other Germany,' which did not resign itself submissively to enslavement...