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...October 1991, my life changed profoundly. As I entered the gym of the Maynard School in Cambridge, one child stood apart from his peers as they celebrated their afternoon freedom. He was a small Black boy, slumped against the corner of the gym's stage. "Smile," I joked to him, "it don't cost nothing." He responded with a glare repelling enough to send any well-meaning Harvard kid back to the artificial comforts of the "other Cambridge." As it turned out, this boy had been punished for being "too rambunctious," and he wanted nothing less than to spend...
Even when he lived in Washington D.C., former U.S. Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill used to say that he remained registered in Cambridge so he could vote for Walter Sullivan and school committee member Joe Maynard...
Because of a piece of parchment. John Maynard Keynes once said that practical men are the unconscious slaves of a defunct economist. Clinton's arms controllers are the conscious slaves of an obsolete treaty. Twenty-two years ago, we signed a treaty with the Soviet Union to drastically limit missile defenses. The idea was to prevent an offensive-defensive arms race and eliminate the temptation to launch a surprise attack (because an undefended attacker would be open to nuclear retaliation...
Kirstein never lacked for accomplished or famous people in his near vicinity; Mosaic records the steady patter of dropping names, starting with his father's lawyer (Louis D. Brandeis) and running through most of Bloomsbury ("Maynard Keynes guided me to a show of Cezanne's water-colors at the Leicester Galleries") and a Who's Who of 20th century artists, writers and performers. This recitation seems forgivable. Kirstein recognizes that some of these big names were "glad enough to suffer rich idiots like myself," but he genuinely knew, learned from and helped many of the others. His own youthful dreams...
...illustrate his point, Keohane tells anapocryphal tale about Robert Maynard Hutchins,once chancellor of the University of Chicago anddean of the Yale law school. Reputedly, Hutchinsonce entertained former president William HowardTaft...