Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WANT to understand incest, wait for a re-run of Lolita. While Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece doesn't deal with technical incest, a sexual liason involving blood relatives, Lolita does capture that strange and tormented allure which a child can hold over an adult. The first, wonderful, utterly perverse shot of Lolita's toes contains more suppressed eroticism than all of Bernardo Bertolucci's Luna...
University and financial leaders say this compactness has allowed Harvard Management to hold on to the talented investment managers who have given the company such a successful record so far. James N. Bailey, managing director of Cambridge Associates--which evaluates the investment performance of Harvard and other universities--says HMC has consistently beaten the market average by 10 to 25 per cent...
Private management companies for universities like HMC are rare; most colleges use outside firms. Jerald L. Stevens, Yale treasurer, says Yale splits its endowment up among five external managers. "We have contracts where we hold them to a management fee and to targeted results." Stevens says. "We don't anticipate moving to a Harvard model," he adds...
More importantly, Podhoretz' notion of the power of the ideas of intellectuals is illusory. As editor of Commentary, he believes the ideas will determine the political actions of his country by themselves. But ideas only truly take hold in a society if they represent a class or interest. We are not mobilized by ideas alone. The competition between intellectual magazines has little effect on general public opinion. Podhoretz' analysis underplays the spontaneity of political actions. If, as he submits, we act only when gripped by ideas, how can he explain the riots by blacks in Watts in the summer...
...HAVEN'T heard anything about the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) this year, that is probably because it has not managed to meet yet. CUE will hold its first introductory meeting this week and its first major session November 15, exactly two months after Harvard registration...