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...recently been an "almost total lack" of North Vietnamese infiltration into the South. Since such a development could be an important signal of Hanoi's willingness to reduce the level of combat, newsmen the next morning eagerly clustered around the State Department's spokesman, Robert J. McCloskey...
...former student and colleague of Robert McCloskey, I feel his death as a tragic loss. He was a man of passion. All his intensity, vigor, commitment, his uncomplacent integrity, vigor, commitment, his uncomplacent integrity were devoted to fairness, clarity, understanding and humaneness. This is what made him so superb a teacher. The white heat of his mind and heart was at the service of nothing else than light...
HOLLYWOOD, Time magazine, and other institutions that regard higher education as a branch of the entertainment industry would have difficulty understanding why Robert G. McCloskey was regarded as one of the most gifted teachers of his time. His lectures were not flamboyant, his writings not "popular"; he cultivated no eccentricities, and struck no poses. Though he loved the theater he detested the theatrical...
...gift he had was that of lucid speech, clear prose, and serious reflection. In an age that has made "communication" its shibboleth if not its romantic illusion, Robert McCloskey quietly expressed the best of the scholarly tradition, both in his clarity of thought and in his commitment to serious learning...
...education, and to dozens of assistant professors anguished by the difficulty of resolving through intelligence alone their uncertain prospects and half-formed interests. He was a steady source of strength and insight to his peers, and all who shared his love of learning, no matter their age, were Robert McCloskey's peers...