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...Stanley Hoffmann stared down at his lap, then fingered a nob on his desk drawer. A few minutes later he groped for a paper clip and stuck it between his teeth. Hoffmann was being accommodating, talking about himself, but he wasn't used to it, and he probably didn't enjoy...
...discussed what he called his "most powerful experience," living through World War II in France. He and his mother were alone and part-Jewish. When Hoffmann was II, the Nazis occupied Paris, where they were living, and he and his mother fled to Nice, first unoccupied and later controlled by the easy-going Italians. In 1943, Italy capitulated and the Germans took over. The Hoffmanns dwelt in terror; many of their countrymen--expatriate Austrians--were picked up by the Gestapo...
...fourth down and two at the Harvard 37, the Bruins finally ran out of chances as Crimson defensive end Bob Hoffmann bear-hugged burly fullback Steve Wormith to the ground in his own backfield...
...Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, made the original proposal for the Advisory Council in the aftermath of the Dow demonstration. Hoffmann specified that such a committee should take up three questions: campus recruitment, the relation of Harvard to the Vietnam war, and agreed-upon forms of protest...
...Hoffmann does not want to see a small investigating committee. He sees a body with something like 40 members, half of them professors appointed by Pusey, the other half students (elected House by House, or selected from a wide range of organizations, or--least desirable, to Hoffmann--appointed by Pusey). That sort of committee would not only discover government finances but include members who stoutly advocate maintaining them. And the burden would be on radical members to make a persuasive case for their elimination...