Word: line
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planned very carefully, though--no direct debates with SASC, mind you, and no need for Bok to think on his feet. He'd tried that crossing the Yard amid hundreds of protestors last year, and all he could do was toss off a "What, Me Worry?" line before University police managed to rescue him from his own students...
What Bok calls "tainted money" can do a lot of good, admittedly, and it would be hard to argue that the University shouldn't take money from anyone of lesser moral standards than Harvard itself. Bok draws the line at accepting stolen goods, however. The only thing Bok overlooks is that there are plenty of legal ways to steal a fortune...
...student and faculty critics as innocents or fanatics who just won't be reasonable. "But no university could accept a Hitler Collection of Judaica or a Vorster Center for Racial Justice or a Capone Institute of Criminology." Or an Engelhard Library of Public Affairs? Where does Bok draw the line between an acceptable and an unacceptable donor...
...line becomes even fuzzier when Bok's theory addresses the question of gifts intended to attract "favorable publicity to improve a donor's image." On the one hand, Bok proudly points out he once turned down a gift from the Papadopoulos regime which seemed designed to gain the goodwill of Greek-Americans. On the other hand, Steiner admitted that Harvard had accepted the Atlantic Richfield Company's offer to build a public affairs forum, even though "I'm sure ARCO hoped (the naming of the Forum) could have some favorable impact on its negative public image." True, ARCO has been...
...performer whose appeal was strong but limited. It marked the end of her raw scream-and-simmer tactics at the microphone too, because smooth, technosyncratic, polished albums mean similar concerts. The days when you could see Patti Smith wail out with Lenny Kaye at The Rat or The Bottom Line are gone. She was known to spit at her audiences, to jump on tables and kick drinks into the abyss. Patti Smith is now banned from The Bottom Line...