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...impression of what the University is like. But the real Harvard would be something of a shock to someone who had come here expecting to experience the affirmative-action version, full of deans eager to hire more women and minority group members, elaborate, ultrademocratic salary scales, and not a hint of ingrownness or elitism. It's a pleasant world, this affirmative-action Harvard, but the plan as a description of the University doesn't ring very true...
...first hint that something rather different is going to be delivered here comes at the very opening, when Sidney Poitier, serving as both star and director, gets off his factory job and steps into some dog dirt. Poitier is one of the more fastidious of movie stars, so perhaps he saw this as his symbolic initiation into the realms of folk comedy. He did not, in any case, summon a double for the scene, but carried straight through with it himself, sparing no sacrifice to get into a little funk...
Written for a reported $100,000 advance with the help of Freelance Writer Patrick Anderson, Magruder's book contains only an occasional hint of the abject contrition that marked his final statement to the bench, and it offers little fresh evidence about the evolution of the Watergate crimes. He guesses Nixon was involved all along in the coverup: "Based on my knowledge of how the White House operated, I would suspect that once the burglars were arrested, Nixon immediately demanded and got the full story, and that thereafter he kept in close personal touch with the cover-up operation...
...most telling hint to date that Chou has either stepped or been pushed into the background came earlier this month when he failed to attend a banquet in his honor given by visiting Senegalese President Leopold Senghor at the Great Hall of the People in Peking. It was the first time that Chou has been known to miss a scheduled public appearance...
...clear violation of the Emperor's trade-war embargo. Napoleon's mother, Madame Mere, casts a practical Corsican eye on ephemeral pomp and circumstance, while prudently stuffing gold in her socks. And of course Talleyrand appears, ceaselessly tacking for advantage and trimming his sails at the hint of rough weather...