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...cold?" he would repeat after me. "yes," I said, and he fiddled with some knobs, peering around at intervals to ask, "All right?" After a few tries it was all right, and he sat down again to watch the swimmers with genial interest on his face...
...fact is," the Austin report concludes, "that the universities are simply not very good at reaching collective decisions on questions with social or political overtones." So, to forfend this fragile galaxy of genial political incompetents from overtaxing their powers of decision, the Austin report would entrust the power to formulate University moral investment policy to a "single officer of substantial standing, with a small staff, who would invite and sift suggestions from all members of the University community with respect to what might be termed the nonfinancial aspects of the University's role as investor...
...anyone can handle both San Francisco and Boston, it is Ozawa. He is at once a demanding orchestral perfectionist-especially brilliant with 20th century music-and a genial man under whom musicians enjoy working. If a flaw could be found in his musical makeup, it is that he often seems to be learning his repertory as he goes along from hall to hall, hotel to hotel. Sometimes the results are scrappy, but more usually they are exciting and blooming with fresh thought...
DEALING IS BRANDED by a certain genial decadence; it gives you the feeling that the people who put it together had a rather passive contempt for the project, holding it at a redeeming arm's length while they went through the necessary gestures. Originally a straight-out attempt at pure exploitation, Dealing's script was concocted by Michael Crichton '64 (a Med School graduate who has recently taken up practice in Hollywood) in consultation with his brother Douglas. Even before filming began, the script was turned into a book (a la Love Story and Summer of '42) which was issued...
FARRAGAN'S RETREAT, by Tom McHale. The Catholic piety and prejudices of a rich Philadelphia family done up with genial savagery...