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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neil I. Koblitz '69, Picrce Lecturer on Mathematics and one of the writers of the alumni letter, said yesterday he believes "the letter will be a form of pressure to encourage Harvard to have an effective role in the anti-apartheid movement and to encourage others to do the same...
...more conventional stories tend to find their mark, but here too, the quality is uneven. In "Cortes and Montezuma," Barthelme demonstrates his mastery of a peculiar form that might be called transmogrification of legend, the same form he used in his novel Snow White and several short stories. He takes the fabeled meeting of Cortes and Montezuma and twists it, distorts it, makes it fresh. Among the stories, "Tales of the Swedish Army" relates a sudden meeting of the author and a unit of Swedish soldiers on maneuvers in lower Manhattan, an exercise of the imaginative virtuosity that has characterized...
...Cornwall, England, but saw little reward in the life of a country squire. Convinced he should help the tribal people he had seen, he joined in 1969 with Francis Huxley (son of the late Sir Julian Huxley), Viscount Boyd of Merton and Lord Butler of Saffron Walden to form Survival International...
Television makes little enough use of its power to form public opinion, and not just because it is running all those sitcorns. Television in 1948 won the right to 5 editorialize on the air, but, says Paley, "finally we concluded there was no way the network could give editorial opinions on national or international subjects." Why? Because so many of its independently owned affiliates had different political opinions. Paley speaks of "heated arguments" with Ed Murrow, Eric Sevareid and Howard K. Smith about editorializing, which is why your ordinary local late-night radiogabber is a lot freer with his opinions...
Strangely, when Paley pleads his own 3 inability as a television lord to make "fuller and better use of this magic form of a communications," he does not mention Ed Murrow. They were once close, Paley's one exception to his rule about not socializing with office colleagues. Twenty years ago, in a speech that offended Paley, Murrow proposed a plan similar in some respect to the plan Paley now offers. In a cold war period when Murrow thought the country "in mortal danger," the newsman proposed that each of the 20 or 30 largest corporate advertisers give...