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Shultz is seldom short on either fact or theory, although the softspoken, smooth-faced economist seldom expresses his ideas in song. His quick grasp of facts and theories, his skill in persuading the federal bureaucracy to act on them-plus an ironclad loyalty to the President-are the qualities that have prompted Richard Nixon to keep investing his Treasury Secretary with added clout. By now Shultz has become one of the two or three most powerful men in Washington...
...represents the high point of a person's existence, there is something wrong in either the situation or the person. And in Northern Ireland it is clearly not the people. It is just this feeling of life lost, perhaps unrecoverable, yet barely out of reach of each person's grasp that occupies the central position in Marcel Ophuls's new film, A Sense of Loss...
Crimson football coach Joe Restic told me last fall that "things look different down on the field," indicating that I didn't fully grasp what was going on. The same type of criticism has been leveled at The Crimson sports staff this winter. To this I answer, "Yes, things do look different on the field, but they look different from the stands as well." And it is wrong to allege that one can only understand what is going on from a ground or court level. Crimson sports writers are generally people who follow the sport they cover persistently and diligently...
Professors of English are not by nature practical men. They are not accustomed to thinking of work and pleasure as mutually exclusive. They are also self-indulgent. They would not dream of saving up Shakespeare for a rainy day. They are also irrational. They do not readily grasp the logic by which the present is emptied of beauty and significance so that acorns can be stored up for a golden future. A professor of English who becomes a dean is bound to become a hypocrite or a subversive because what he wants is Athens and Florence...
...concentration cannot properly be said to possess a distinctive discipline or mode of inquiry; the study of government, or political science, is often cited as an example. In addition, mastering a discipline is no easy matter. The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry. Even this capacity may erode over time if it does not relate to experiences and problems that recur in the student's later life...