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...administrator in what is now the Office of Career Placement, Miss Stedman was known as an excellent administrator, an innovator, and "as a friend to many students," Barbara L. Norton '38, executive secretary of the Radcliffe Alumni Association, said yesterday...
...David L. Evans, Senior Admissions Officer Harvard-Radcliffe...
Perhaps the greatest shock has been in France, a country where many of Cambodia's new rulers learned their Marx and where worship of revolution has for years been something of a national obsession among the intelligentsia. Said New Philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, a former leftist who has turned against Marxism: "We thought of revolution in its purest form as an angel. The Cambodian revolution was as pure as an angel, but it was barbarous. The question we ask ourselves now is, can revolution be anything but barbarous...
...Lévy has clearly pointed out the abyss to which worship of revolution leads. Nonetheless, many Western European intellectuals are still reluctant to face the issue squarely. If the word "pure," when used by adherents of revolution, in effect means "barbarous," perhaps the best the world can hope for in its future political upheavals is a revolution that is as "corrupt" as possible. Such skewed values are, indeed, already rife in some quarters. During the 1960s, Mao's Cultural Revolution in China was admired by many leftist intellectuals in the West, because it was supposedly "pure"-particularly...
When David Begelman was forced out as president of Columbia Pictures, his friends in the movie industry vowed that they would get even. Last week they did. By a 6-to-l vote, the board of Columbia Pictures Industries, the parent company, fired its president and chief executive, Alan Hirschfield, 42. Begelman's allies on the board pretended that Hirschfield's dismissal from his $250,000-a-year job was not related to the dispute. Nonsense, said Hirschfield: "I lay it all on the Begelman affair...