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...foreign policy undertaken by the Crimson. McCarthy had gone out of his way to portray the University as a den of Marxist saboteurs during his years at the helm of the Senate Committee on Investigations. In 1955, already censured for his extraordinary red-baiting campaign, he returned to the limelight temporarily as he testified against accused communists in a Boston trial. Levin attended the trial "just to see what was going on" but recalls that it created only a moderate stir among her Radcliffe friends...
...only obvious change in Boyer's life-style since Genentech's big splash has been the acquisition of a new champagne-beige Porsche Targa (cost: $40,000). He is married and has two children, but since his sudden riches, he likes to keep them out of the limelight. Even his associates at Genentech do not have his new home phone number...
John Seelen, a member of the class of '77, earned the Brooks Bowl--an award presented to the year's outstanding freshman swimmer--before being forced out of the limelight by tendonitits, during his sophomore season...
Bruce Chatwin sidled into the limelight two years ago with In Patagonia, a stylish piece of travel writing. The Viceroy of Ouidah finds his jeweler's eye playing over 19th century West Africa. The book is a novelization of the life and death of a footloose Brazilian named Francisco Felix de Souza, who flourished as a slave trader under the protection of the King of Dahomey. Chatwin began his research nine years ago in Dahomey and returned in 1977 to find the country named the People's Republic of Benin. "The fetish priests of Ouidah," he notes...
...fire of fundamentalism is spreading, even though the next step in the "if, then" sequence is that if we ignore the handicaps then a lot of people will probably suffer and die, withough any chance for the salvation the fundamentalists want for them. In its new-found political limelight, the Moral Majority is seducing too many Americans into its truistic fantasyland. In its zeal to communicate the Word, the Moral Majority has forgotten who spoke it, and why. In its new-found political confidence, the Majority has intimidated America into doubting its confidence in the human ability to discern problems...