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Probably the administrative aid in course preparation provided this year by the Gen Ed office has influenced Faculty attitudes. According to Wilcox, the office now has "start-up money." for slides and "all the other folderol that goes into the creation of a course." The help is welcome--one of the Core's worst problems during its first year stemmed from the difficulty of organizing that "folderol," Emily D. Vermeule, chairman of the Literature and Arts subcommittee says...
Wilcox, director since the mid-1960's of Harvard's ever-dwindling General Education program, has watched the great curricular reform of the 1940s grind to a finish. Gen Ed was to the 1940s what the Core will be to the 80s. Another educational scheme in a dynastic cycle. Another reform that burst out of the gate and lost it past the clubhouse turn. It's hardly a new story...
Because he traveled much and lived in remote places, Hemingway sustained his friendships and antagonisms through the mails. They enabled him to exchange the latest dope and "gen" (military jargon for intelligence). He also used the epistolary form to procrastinate: "Such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something." It is estimated that he wrote about 6,000 letters. Carlos Baker vetted 2,500 pieces of correspondence for his biography, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (1969). As editor, he has selected nearly 600 moveable treats, from World War I until two weeks before...
...think we should reward criminals with money." Adds Edward Luttwak, a foreign policy expert at Georgetown University: "By saving 52 lives, we sacrificed diplomats all over a world riddled with half-crazy governments." This view is also heard abroad, though mostly in nongovernmental circles. The Swiss newspaper Journal de Genève asserts that the agreement "suggests to the entire world that it is possible to change the direction of U.S. policy through acts of terrorism and blackmail." French Political Commentator Edouard Sablier observes: "Of course it was ransom. By definition, ransom is anything that has to be paid...
Harvard experts yesterday disagreed over President-elect Ronald Reagan's choice of Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr., former NATO commander-in-chief, for secretary of state, but predicted the Senate will confirm the nomination...