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Martin Feldstein, professor of Economics, described the Brimmer report yesterday as "harsh and out of date" and said the number of NSF fellows who came to Harvard's graduate Economics program was "abnormally low" last year because of the publicity from the report...
Although generally affectionate, Virginia could also be quite harsh. The blind observance of formality, which she considered the definition of idiocy, particularly tried her patience. For example, when relatives came to visit her dying father and offer her their sympathy she fumed to Violet Dickinson, "Relatives swarm. I liken them to all kinds of parasitic animals really I think they deserve no better. Three mornings have I spent having my hand held and my emotions pumped...
Novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand received a standing ovation from an audience of 1300 yesterday at Northeastern University after telling them, "Make yourself heard. Speak out against altruism on any scale. Honor the hard, harsh, glorious reality of individual freedom...
...fact that Kissinger obviously did tell someone is not surprising, given the book's descriptions of Kissinger's real attitude toward the President. Kissinger not only called Nixon "our meatball President" in front of aides, but at various times used such harsh terms as irrational, insecure, maniacal, dangerous, our drunken friend, like a madman, and said he possessed a "second-rate mind." He also thought Nixon was antiSemitic. Kissinger, explains the book, "saw in the President an antagonistic, gut reaction which stereotyped Jews and convinced Nixon that they were his enemies." One sign of that attitude was Nixon...
...three dimensions are stranded on ledges and behind glass, so that they can only be seen frontally. When this is inflicted on pieces like the exquisite (and much underrated) cubist sculptures of John Storrs, an artist who should have been rehabilitated by the show, it borders on vandalism. Harsh blasts of light transmute rows of neoclassical and Victorian marbles into white soap. A group of David Smiths is gussied up with a 50-ft. photomural of what purports to be, but is not, the landscape around his studio at Bolton Landing. Such arbitrary window dressing annuls the difference between museums...