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Anyone who has ever wondered why there is such a push for increased numbers of tenured minority and women faculty at Harvard should read A Tenured Professor. With insight some-what surprising from a University "insider," Warburg Professor of Economics John Kenneth Galbraith muses on tenure and other collegiate and national ills in this cynical, thoroughly engaging new novel...
...onstage without hogging attention. As a director he showed a keen and kindly sense of humor, recurrent sparks of visual and literary imagination and a solid gift for getting a story told. But the company he guided was uneven and, worse, unsubtle. There were almost no quiet moments of insight into the characters' souls. It would be hard to imagine better, more accessible productions for audiences seeing the plays for the first time or duller, more disappointing ones for playgoers who know the texts well. Perhaps that is why reviewers tended to be regretful while audiences in Los Angeles, which...
...school's Direktor made the announcement that barred me from the boating party--not in order to lay claim to extraordinary scars and sufferings that taught me the real meaning of tyranny and persecution, but merely to state that this early part of my past left me with an insight I have found useful, both as a historian and as a human being: there are evil people who won't be deterred from their nefarious doings by what might be considered by the self-deceived as special circumstances. His iron cross, first class and all, did not save my father...
...must, however, supplement that insight with another, which may appear to be in conflict with it, but which simply reinforces that portion of it which tells us to take nothing for granted, especially when it comes to the judgement of human character. One of the mathematics teachers at the Franzosische Gymnasium was a marvelously good-humored and civilized Jewish gentleman called Dr. L. I remember him singing the role of Doctor Bartolo in a resonant bass voice at a school performance of The Barber of Seville, and doing so with irresistible comic gusto. The general assumption among former students...
...material has been assembled. Each episode has an organizing theme (the movement goes north; the emergence of black pride) and a dramatic arc that builds toward climactic episodes marking key milestones. What makes the series most satisfying, however, are the interviews with onetime partisans who look back with surprising insight and clearheadedness. It's the sight of a graying Carmichael smiling as he recalls a phone conversation with King just before King came out publicly against the Viet Nam War. Or Ron Scott, whose apartment was raided by National Guardsmen during the Detroit riots, explaining, "Inside of most black people...