Word: hoffmann
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Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann returns the Met to top form...
...foreign policy front, Reagan offers little reassurance as he demonstrated once again in his address to Congress. As Stanley Hoffmann wrote this month in a perceptive critique of Reaganism in The New York Review of Books, "An ideology is not a strategy." After outlining the favorable conditions present when the administration assumed office and the elements of its simplistic ideology. Hoffmann examined the record of Year One and concluded, not surprisingly, that an effective foreign policy could never proceed logically from Reagan's prescribed set of attitudes...
Harvard affiliates who have sgned the peti- tion include: Harvey G. Cox. Thomas Professor of Divinity; Richard E. Caves, Stone Professor of International Trade; John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor; James S. Duesenberry, Maier Professor of Money and Banking; Stanley H. Hoffmann, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France; Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government; David S. Landes, Goelet Professor of French History; Hilary W. Putnam, Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic; Dean Rosovsky; and George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus...
...Auburn St. Nicolaas Bloembergen, the Harvard laser expert who shared the physics prize, was on hand; so was David Hubel, the Medical School professor who shared the prize in medicine and physiology. From New Haven came James Tobin, the laureate in economics; and from Ithaca, Cornell professor Roald Hoffmann, who shared the chemistry prize, sent regrets. Finally, Paul Samuelson, the 1970 Nobel laureate in economics, dropped by from MIT for the festivities...
...Bloembergen, Tobin, Samuelson, and, in spirit, Hoffmann, the party was something of a homecoming. All had spent three years in that yellow house at the start of their academic careers as part of a remarkable and little-known Harvard research program for extraordinarily gifted young scholars--the Society of Fellows...