Word: lindseyism
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...PROPOSAL that Ec 10 be administrated by a committee rather than a single course head is an excellent solution to the course's unique problems. Unlike other Harvard classes, Ec 10's day-to-day operations are handled by a central office. Head section leader Lawrence B. Lindsey provides administrative support for the course's 40 sections and frequently meets with students. In contrast, course head Feldstein's only contact with students is through his ocassional course wide lectures--he will give six this semester...
However, Lawrence B. Lindsey, head of sections for the course, says Feldstein's presentation of his view on social security was not unusual. He notes that professors with a wide variety of views lecture to Soc Anal 10 and that much of the material they present is disputed to a lesser on greater extent...
...Lindsey says, "All section leaders pre free to say in class what they think is right," adding, "Critical evaluation of material is a part of the sections...
...exploits of Boyce and Lee, who were arrested and convicted in 1977, inspired a bestselling book by Robert Lindsey and now John Schlesinger's movie version. In An Englishman Abroad, the 1983 BBC-TV film he directed from Alan Bennett's script, Schlesinger painted a wry, rueful portrait of the British spy--Guy Burgess, retired to Moscow--as a displaced person, isolated from his best friends and instincts. Chris Boyce (Timothy Hutton) feels isolated too, trapped in America; but here Schlesinger dares not flirt with political or visual subtlety. Everyone is an oaf but our lad. Mom (Joyce Van Patten...
Having doubled the amount of housing for the poor and reduced crime rates to the same levels as those of rich white districts, Lindsey now presides more or less benignly over some 2,000 housing units. Washington is putting up $200,000 to try his oasis system in another city, possibly Houston. But to Lindsey, who now has a $52,000 salary and no beard or ponytail, the big danger is that Government still tends to favor what he calls a failure model, imposing expensive programs on the poor and then blaming them for the predictable problems. "Public housing must...