Word: handing
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Much of the intensity of the '69 conflict came from the perception that Harvard acted not as an independent academic institution but as a hand-maiden of government policy and corporate interests. In recent years we have seen a spectacle of sycophancy at the Kennedy School of Government. Most egregious was the Kennedy School's award to former Attorney General Ed Meese. But the pattern hgas been borne out by many other events, such as allowing Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams to dictate the conditions of his appearance at the K-School, "disinviting" former ambassador Robert White, an administration...
...going over [to the State House] just to shake [Dukakis'] hand," said Walsh. "I'll tell him, `We're not going to pay you unless...
Galina Boyko, principal of School No. 32 in Moscow, was teaching Russian literature to a class of 13-year-olds when a boy shot his hand into the air and asked about man's need for religion. Boyko, a 32-year veteran of the classroom, was understandably startled: religion has long been taboo in Soviet schools. But instead of avoiding the issue, she led her students through a 30- minute debate on the universal search for faith. "Before school reform, parents would have come to me, frightened that religion had even come up," Boyko said. "Now no one is surprised...
...spent much of my last full day in Moscow at the apartment of an "unofficial" -- i.e., banned -- artist, the late Vasily Sitnikov. A true eccentric who built kayaks by hand in the vain hope of exporting them to the West, Sitnikov scorned "socialist realism" in his art. His most serious paintings alternated between a touching optimism and a profound morbidity. During our afternoon together, we discussed the plight of Soviet artists, and I left with two paintings hidden under my jacket (in case KGB watchers were about). On my return to Moscow this year, I saw a fully sanctioned exhibition...
Brezhnev has suffered an even more dramatic fall from grace. His strongest negative rating, 80%, comes from Communist Party members who bitterly blame him for abusing his post and causing the party's prestige to decline. On the other hand, Nikita Khrushchev, a reformer of sorts who was thrown out of office and saw his reputation tarnished before he died, is enjoying a modest boost in popularity. More than 29% view him favorably, compared with only 5% for Brezhnev...