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Reality has been pressing in on Jimmy Carter on all sides, as the half-year assessments of his presidency have duly noted: trouble with foreign policy, ups and downs with Congress, blacks and liberals, continuing suspicion from the business community. But in the White House family quarters, all continues serene. In fact, the Carters are so relentlessly just-plain-folks that outsiders usually ask, "Are they for real?" The answer is yes, to the extent that reality can exist in the White House, with its 70 or so servants and other household staff, its almost weekly state dinners, its constant...
...that ringing declaration, made at the University of Notre Dame last May, Jimmy Carter might have added "You can depend on it!" In his half-year in office, the President has gone far toward creating a new American foreign policy, both in content and conduct. He has tirelessly emphasized ?some might say preached?the virtues of open diplomacy and moral principles as a substitute for what he contends was the often secretive and sometimes amoral Realpolitik of the Nixon-Ford-Kissinger years. He has spent an extraordinary amount of time on foreign affairs and has made more news...
...easily find reasons to fit their own politics and prejudices. The monetarists, who are mostly Republican and conservative, pointed to the sharp decline in the rate of growth in the money supply in the six months up to last February; it rose only 2.7%, v. 8.7% in the previous half-year. Since the monetarists reckon that it takes six to nine months for changes in the money supply to have an impact on the economy, they found it natural that business hit an air pocket in the late summer. Many other economists, notably liberal Democrats, pointed their fingers...
Eliot Forbes '40, Peabody Professor of Music, said the department voted this week to propose a letter-graded course in orchestra that would give students a half-year credit for a year's performance...
Although his audience probably expected the blather that educators prefer to hide behind, Rosovsky instead proceeded to announce a move that stands today as one of the most prominent decisions of his two - and - one - half-year tenure: "I think that Harvard College needs a new Redbook. It is time to reestablish a consensus that will last another 20 years." The comment by the Japanese - economics - professor - turned - dean, stated in a level, dispassionate voice, meant little or nothing to students gathered in the lofty dining hall. But it set off a wholesale review of undergraduate education that is just...