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Back in the days when a summons to 4 University Hall usually meant disciplinary action, Harvard College developed a tradition for great and powerful Deans. Perhaps the greatest and most powerful-and the kindest-was the now legendary Dean Briggs. It was in his tradition that Chester N. Greenough ruled. And it was in Greenough's footsteps that a quiet, pipe smoking assistant professor of Government hesitatingly assumed the Deanship...
...sizable task of cleaning up Richard's bad reputation. Like some other scholars, Horsfall-Ertz has come to the conclusion that Richard has been grossly maligned by history, that he did not murder the little princes, and that, all in all, he was one of the best, kindest and wisest kings in England's history...
...should not have printed it without names and chapter and verse. Did the American Army of occupation make no mistakes either? The whole writing of it is vicious, ending with: "No one really knew, and no one much cared." On the whole, the British and the Americans are the kindest races, and this was a vicious thing...
...European hosts, the Italians have long been the kindest to visitors from the U.S. They go out of their way to smile, to cheer, to welcome, and to give directions which may or may not prove helpful. From the Communist point of view, nothing could be worse...
Author Malaparte begins his pitch with a sugary invocation of his victims. "The American army," he coos, "[is] the loveliest, the kindest . . . army in the world. . . I like Americans. . . and I proved it a hundred times during the war. . . Their souls are pure, much purer than ours. I like the Americans. . . because they believe that Christ is always on the side of those who are in the right, because they believe that it is a sin to be in the wrong...