Word: hoffmann
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After the ruling by Rosenkrantz. Houtthaker and Hoffmann, Bok appointed an ad hoc committee--whose membership University officials have refused to disclose--and charged it with reviewing Skocpol and reaching a recommendation on whether she should be tenured...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, called it an "absolute horror. "His colleague, Harvey C. Mansfield '53, said it demonstrated "the good sense of the American people. "There were debates about the meaning of the GOP sweep, the future of the Democratic party and the role of the far right. As the Ivy League analysis of the Reagan victory last November dragged on into the winter, a number of Harvard faculty members--most prominently, Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History who is now the senior Soviet-Eastern Europe specialist on the National Security Council--journeyed to Washington to participate...
...hearts of Frenchmen. Giscard is from the Auvergne region, where the people are known for holding in their emotions " Indeed, the President rarely seems genuinely comfortable with crowds while campaigning. "He's not a speaker for the masses," notes Harvard University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, a longtime observer of French politics. "He's not exactly the warmest person either." Even on television-where his confidence and lucidity come across best-Giscard cannot shake what many see as a handicap-a quasi-aristocratic background, suggested by the "d'Estaing" suffix borrowed from an extinct noble family. "Two centuries after...
...endowed with such powers, Giscard has conducted a foreign policy more notable for subtlety than clarity. At heart he remains loyal to Gaullist traditions: independence and a strong French presence on the international scene. Where Giscard differs from De Gaulle, says Hoffmann, is in his desire to be "the universal Mister Nice Guy-a thankless task...
...economy was another question. "Given France's problems and limits, Giscard probably has done as well with it as anyone could," says Hoffmann in a judgment that is widely shared by foreign observers. Yet Giscard faltered at the start. For the first 27 months of his term, the government failed to react adequately to quadrupled international oil prices. Resorting to classic pump-priming methods, it fueled inflation while the franc weakened. The President then turned to hard-nosed Premier Barre, a decision that has been described as "the best Giscard has made in seven years...