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Safire claims to write "neither in defense nor denunciation," but what he has produced is the cleverest, if still unconvincing, defense of Nixon yet. He devotes too much space to a glorification of Nixon's meager domestic program, which he sees as a near revolutionary "New Federalism" in government. In foreign affairs, he uncritically accepts Nixon's Viet Nam policies while-more reasonably-extolling the Nixon initiatives in Peking and Moscow...
...Crimson's defeat before a meager crowd in St. Louis Arena gave Harvard (23-6) a fourth place finish in the nation, the same ranking as last year. The Terriers, 26-5-1 overall, took the third slot, also for the second consecutive season...
...administrators seldom packed out beyond the Yard's wells--unless there was some land to buy. Although University disciples would like you to believe that Harvard altrusticly scratched itself from the race to beat MIT to Central Square, actually Harvard did its best but was saddled with too meager a mechanism to buy, or just wasn't shrewd enough to deal with private land developers. When the banks of the Charles were covered with old coal storage dumps, only a few alumni had the foresight to buy the parcel and donate it to Harvard...
Though life for the average person is spare and hard by any standard, the benefits as well as the hardships of China's progress have been distributed with a minimum of inequality. The average factory worker makes a meager $28 a month; the average peasant living on a commune about half that. Essentials, like food, medicine and housing, cost next to nothing and, to the envy of the rest of the world, have not increased in price in 20 years; yet "luxury" items, such as bicycles or radios, can soak up months of savings. The average urban worker...
...However poor, however rejected or unsuccessful he might be, the Parisian artist could afford to feel that he was part of a continuum known as the avantgarde. In America this was not so; the way to a modernist aesthetic lay through nearly impassable thickets of provincialism, with a very meager supply of information as a guide...