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Similarly, the curriculum grows without much conscious effort to achieve the various purposes just defined. New courses and programs appear, but they are usually added either because students manifest a desire to become acquainted with a new subject or area of human affairs or because the Faculty believes that some new body of knowledge is sufficiently interesting or important to be included in the curriculum. New courses are also created as professors are recruited to the Faculty. For entirely worthy reasons, however, the new professors are chosen because of their ability to explore particular areas of knowledge or subfields...
...pointed out the weaknesses of the Kennedy approach to foreign policy. The "best and the brightest," the Harvard professors and the liberal intellectuals who made up Kennedy's Kitchen Cabinet, often lacked practical experience and understanding of Realpolitik. But the bad fruit of the Kennedy era did not become manifest until long after Camelot had passed away, and The Crimson of the 1960-63 period ran a love affair with the White House...
...Congressmen, but not Congress." It is easy to like a legislator for his personal style and policy views, Fenno notes, but difficult to admire a Congress because it is expected to solve national problems-and it rarely can. Moreover, many Congressmen "portray themselves as the gallant fighters against the manifest evils of Congress; they run for Congress by running against Congress." As Congress thus loses prestige, its effectiveness can decline in a self-perpetuating spiral of criticism...
...tour de force of explicitness. The subject of the building is twofold: art, and what makes art manifest-light...
Ultracritical. As Truman's physician since his White House days, Surgeon Graham was forewarned of how this last illness might manifest itself. When he was under exceptional stress as President, Truman had developed noisy breathing (technically, "rales") which, Graham recalls, he seemed able to control by sheer will power. Over the years the rales recurred occasionally. About two years ago, Truman pointed to his head and told Graham: "I feel as though I have a little hot wire up here." When he had that feeling, the ex-President lost some of his famed alertness. Also, he said: "My eyeballs...