Word: greats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reflected in each of our magazines, in Time-Life Books and in the Washington Star as well. He helped transform Time Inc. from the largely personal domain of its brilliant founder into a publicly held, diverse company, while preserving, we feel, its essential spirit and broadening its range. With great strength of character and a formidable intellect, he guided our publications through the bitterly divisive years of Viet Nam and Watergate, reaffirming or changing editorial policy...
...Harvard image is one of stability, the great anchor of Cambridge that has endured for as long as anyone can remember. But the impetus for change has slowly grown in the past few years, and many groups this year again called for new University policies...
...years later, the lessons of that spring could not be more to the point. A great deal has happened in the decade since that strike, and so it is easy enough to let the message of that time slip out of our minds. Most members of the current senior class were, after all, only in the sixth grade when then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered in the police; the memory of that day and its aftermath is for them, at best, a muddled one. And so it is convenient to believe those who proclaim that ours is a completely...
...Indian education programs, for example--were eliminated from this year's version. Alfred Sumberg, executive director of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) says the legislation is "not watered down, but realistic in terms of what's possible." Nevertheless, lobbying on the bills has been intense and a great deal of money and manpower--$1.4 billion in programs, 16,000 employees--is at stake. More than a simple victory (or defeat) for Carter, the fate of "his department" threatens to redefine the pecking order among organizations and individuals concerned with all levels of education in the United States...
...real opposition to the proposal, like many others, stems from his "conviction that one of the great strengths of higher education lies in its diversity." Bok has visions of the United States' uniquely independent system of education slowly being eroded under the influence of such a department. One of the major tenets of Bok's philosophy of education in his belief in an almost sacred split between the state and its schools. In Bok's words, a growing body of federal regulations are "beginning to creep very close to those key academic functions which really matter--the size...