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...memoir of growing up in Chicago, Bellow described listening to one of Roosevelt's fireside chats on a summer evening at the height of the Depression: "Just as memorable to me," he wrote, "was to learn how long clover flowers could hold their color in the dusk." Politics was for politicians. Bellow's job was to observe the world around him and make us see its beauty...
...official beginning of a new era in baseball—the era of “Chemical McCarthyism,” the all-too-fitting moniker given to last weekend’s tension-filled testimony by Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Randy Wolf. Just as at the reactionary height of the Cold War, Congress has taken up an issue sure to arouse passions in an effort to gain a measure of publicity and acclaim. The steroid scandal is quickly becoming the sport’s Red Scare, and the intervention of Congress is a campaign to seize the moral high ground...
...would receive patients from all over the country at the height of his practice, his colleagues said...
...Harvard from 1950 to 1954 duing the height of the McCarthy era. It was a chilling period, as right-wing anti-intellectuals attacked almost daily many of the country’s greatest artists, writers, actors, professors, scientists, and universities. Even great institutions such as MIT bent to the attacks by suspending professors and thus curtailing academic freedom for intellectuals anywhere...
...never would have dreamed then that, fifty years later, the anti-intellectuals would be within Harvard itself, in our midst. The university which at the very height of the Cold War protected professors, who allegedly had communist ties years before, from a hysteria led by the angriest and most powerful voices in Washington seems now bent on driving from office, as might some mob out of control, its own leader. It seems like good sport, but with deadly consequences for Harvard and liberal universities everywhere. Who would want to succeed University President Lawrence H. Summers, or indeed even teach...