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...Government Department, for example), but that doesn't take into account the seniors who want very much to drop their thesis but don't. The discontent of thesis-writing seniors is apparent to friends, of course--thesis writers are wont to stumble bleary-eyed into a dining hall and gripe about their work--but often invisible to official Harvard. Seniors probably do not often complain to counselors and advisers when they have problems with their these or problems with courses because of too much thesis work. For example, William G. Perry '35, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel...
...Clockwork Testament is actually a personal gripe about Burgess's experiences in America and about the him adapted from his novel. A Clockwork Orange. Plot in this case is better described as gross misinterpretation of the facts; characterization, as a loose form of character assassination. It should all begin with the dawning of Enderby's last day on his own godforsaken planet, but in fact the novel begins with some revealing articles published two years ago in London's Times Literary Supplement. During 1972-73 Burgess was a "writer-academic" teaching Elizabethan drama and creative writing at New York...
President Bok told his news conference last week that Bell has no "legitimate gripe," adding: "We're making a visible attempt to find available candidates. The choices we make are not on the basis of race and sex." Bok's response sounded like a Nixon press conference answer: He attempted to minimize the importance of a problem while concurrently emphasizing the administration's "visible attempt" to solve...
...Bell does not have a "legitimate gripe," it is hard to understand what that phrase means to Bok. Bell is the only black professor among 59 at the Law School. Of 16 Law School teaching fellows, there is only one black and one with a Spanish surname, which is also a criterion for official minority status. Bell's gripe could not be more legitimate--whether the "visible attempt" to recruit minority faculty is a phony PR slogan or an honest effort that has completely failed...
...Medical Area District 65 organizers' main gripe is that their wages are below those of most area workers and that their raises have failed to match jumps in the cost-of-living. The most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics figures on Boston-area workers are from one year ago, but even these statistics indicate a higher area pay-scale than the July 1974 wage schedule of Harvard workers. For instance, last year's starting secretaries working for "service"-related nonmanufacturing "establishments" in Boston earned from $135 to $152 a week while a starting secretary at Harvard now earns from...