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Under Bok, Harvard has tried to use its financial and educational influence to bring about constructive change in the United States and abroad. Nevertheless, in the grand tradition of isolation he has naively maintained that the university should not compromise its preeminent commitment to graduating educated men and women.

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Give Them What They Want | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

As President Bok continues to testify before Congress and issue policy pronouncements in an attempt to influence a modern world, claims about the university's independence from political obligations lose their credibility. It is time for Harvard to leave behind the concept of education in isolation and accept the responsibilities...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Give Them What They Want | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

O'Keeffe's career was unique in the annals of American art, for several combining reasons. The first, and most obvious, was its length. It embraced the whole history of modernism in America. Between 1916, when a friend took a bundle of her drawings to Alfred Stieglitz at the 291...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Vision of Steely Finesse: Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-198 | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

Who are the feminists, then? These days, they are often people talking about an academic theory that has little to do with most women's lives. Feminist theorizing provides a protective shield of terminology behind which feminists can hide from the ugly world of name-calling chauvinists. Moreover, its academic...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: Feminism's Rebirth | 2/27/1986 | See Source »

As he sees it, one man's act of courage inspires another, and that person's inspires a third, forming a chain of ethical defiance. "When I was put on trial after months of complete isolation, I was inspired by the behavior of people who had gone through the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visit with a Survivor | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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