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...intention of patting him on the back for going to Peking," said Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government. "I have no fences to mend." Hoffmann added that he had hoped to be able to express his views on America's balance-of-power foreign policy to Kissinger...
...theatre of the absurd from people acting absurdly. The absurdity of reality is convincingly exposed only in the scene from the trial of the Chicago 8. The trial is truly ridiculous, and the Workshop's re-creation of it is hilarious and moving at the same time. Judge Julius Hoffmann screams an explanation of why he called William Kunstler "Billy": "I was trying to show you how absurd it sounds in a courtroom!" The irony hangs in the air as the lights go out for the next scene...
...teaching and research, and that professors interested in contributing to society might better do that here than in research papers for politicians or before Congressional committees in Washington. Bok himself says he regrets the time he spent on some of his public battles (Carswell being a significant exception). Hoffmann agreed with Bok, saying. "I'm not sure that someone who does his job as an educator isn't more useful than a D.C. gadfly...
...faculty's apathetic attitude toward the Democratic Presidential candidates could be the result of several divers factors: a wide field of politicians, the unexciting personalities of the men involved, and the earliness of the hour. But if the views of Bok and Hoffmann are characteristic of the faculty as a whole, then perhaps the concept of the "action professor"--so popular in the early 1960's--is dead at Harvard. Perhaps the men who travelled back and forth between Cambridge and Washington so often ten years ago are ashamed of their part, or lack thereof, in the deterioration of this...
...there was an ingrained fatalism in Kissinger-a feeling "that ultimately failure is one of the likely outcomes of any form of action," as his close colleague Stanley Hoffmann put it-which lent Kissinger's personality a soft spot not ordinarily found in such stern, arrogant men. "He has a human quality I value very much," a colleague at the Center for International Affaris said recently. "There's a deep melancholy about him, and a sense that you're dealing with a guy who has known unlimited tragedy and seen some of the bleakest parts of the human landscape...