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...When Pat Brown ran for the governorship in 1958, Unruh was his effective campaign manager in Southern California; later, on the floor of the assembly, he was the man most responsible for the passage of Brown's first successful legislative program. His political manners are from a classic mold. He can be generous, even to Republicans. But when he is crossed, Unruh is merciless. As chairman of the assembly Ways & Means Committee, he once lectured the members: "This committee is run democratically and will continue to be-as long as the majority votes...
Hesburgh aims to break free of any narrow Catholic mold-yet retain the "moral dimension" of Catholic teaching. "This moral belief," says he, "is simply the dignity of man as a child of God. All branches of knowledge are seen as being of service to man." Notre Dame's business school, for example, has a separate course on business ethics. In English classes, famed Professor Frank O'Malley focuses on such themes as the nature of suffering. Hesburgh himself is particularly interested in science: "I don't sit around worrying that tomorrow science is going to come...
...barber who tried to run a dance hall in Easton, Wash., was so poor that when the family house burned down, he moved his wife and two children into tents. "I stole coal from Northern Pacific railroad cars, and we ate plenty of stale bread with that old purple mold coming through," recalls Egbert. He went to Washington State on an athletic scholarship (state discus-throw record in 1937), but dropped out to work on the Grand Coulee Dam to support his family...
...Phrygia, a small phantom country in the Middle East that is startlingly like Lebanon. For Novelist McLaughlin (The Notion of Sin), the resemblance is pure convenience. What interests him is his own proposition that today only the world's small countries produce the "hero-leaders" in the classic mold. In Phrygia, passions are still politics, feuds are more important than primaries, and the bitterness of centuries can clash in the exchange of a glance...
...principals to define what the College is "looking for." Such a definition could quickly become extraordinarily limiting for a school which wants to remain flexible enough to identify, attract, and reward many forms of promise. Applicants already do their best to fit into what they consider the required mold, curtailing spontaneous intellectual griwth and activity. But if the Committee is now showing a Yankee sort of wisdom in keeping most of its opinions to itself, in the past it was more outspoken...