Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walls, to the libraries, to the classic beauty of the Yard on a spring day, that mocks the passage of time. To descend into Widener in search of history is to forget that we will all be history soon enough, and be judged. This institution swallows up little men and women and tells them they will live forever, or at least that their ideas will, and issues them parchments to prove it. I came here believing that; many people still...
...men who run Harvard believe it, and are comfortable in it. Three-and-a-half years ago Henry Rosovsky introduced himself to the Class of '79 in Sanders Theater with the reassuring thought that "the process of change at Harvard moves with glacial speed." We accepted that, partly because it was 9 in the morning and still Freshman Week, and partly because it was spoken with such a calm assurance--the easy arrogance of the truth...
...deciding whether to get rid of certain lucrative stocks or a well-endowed name on its new library, there is always a good reason for doing so. There are budgets and timetables and procedures to be followed, all rational and reasonable and efficient, and the men and women who run the University have no real choice but to follow them. At least they do not have a choice as long as they imagine themselves parts of a machine, and not its masters. As long as that view holds the institution must come before the people--the evicted tenants, the shunned...
...Rosovsky is an evil man because he has pronounced views on the role of an undergraduate education with which many students disagree, and because he believes it proper to enforce those views with little regard for those who disagree with him, is equally incorrect. These are, after all, good men--brilliant, resolute, high-minded men, firm in their conviction that they are doing what is best for the institution that has elevated them to positions of eminence. The Harvard they serve is likewise a great institution, a home for scholars and leaders and great ideas. The problem is that...
...fear of the police made it hard to develop sources. Even now, only one Western reporter in Tehran, Andrew Whitley of the BBC and the Financial Times, speaks Farsi. The U.S. embassy was hopeless as a source because of its self-isolation. Vivid coverage of the deteriorating situation by men like Jonathan C. Randal of the Washington Post and Nicholas Gage of the New York Times was usually hedged on the question of whether the Shah would survive. Gage in June reported on the opposition but added that "most analysts" thought the Shah "too powerful," because he has the backing...