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...Lawrence D. Benson, professor of English and chairman of the Standing Committee on Privacy and Security of Records, asked to review the law, put it. "To protect privacy, the amendment tried to destroy private-ness; to protect the individual, it tried to destroy individuality...
...Harvard is a confusing place where it is hard sometimes to get the strong ethical education that administrators are always saying the University should provide. It is easy to get things mixed up here in thinking of ethics, because Harvard's ambience is one of delicately inter-related bigtime-ness and education--just like the Model U.N.'s To someone coming here from a place very different in scope, ambitious and eager to find a niche, Harvard could impart the desire for big expense accounts almost as easily as the desire for knowledge. The people in Mather 311 staged...
These halting voices are very moving; and Arabs and Israelis is a kind of candle sputtering bravely in the dark ness. It was made by Boston's WGBH, which used two field producers, an Egyptian newsman and an Israeli tele vision journalist. They could not visit each other's homelands, but they worked together closely, if often argumentatively, in neutral Switzerland to shape each program. The series is now being offered all over the Middle East. Though no nation has accepted it yet, Israel, Jordan and Egypt have expressed interest in it. One cannot help believing that...
Faith's story is philosophical noodling, more smoky legend than shoes-in-the-dirt fiction. What saves it from arch ness is the warmth and sense of the telling. The 26-year-old author is black, and variously a cartoonist, TV writer-producer and philosopher, currently teaching at New York's Stony Brook. More than anything, his book is a wry comment on the tension felt by a black intellectual. It shows enough narrative strength, though, for the reader to hope that Johnson will go on to try a straight forward novel...
Hunt gets into trouble when he comes out of the mine and into the day light. Between the beginning and end of Gold there is a great deal of foolish ness about Sir John's plotting, Roger Moore's carrying on with the wife of his immediate and sinister superior (Bradford Dillman) and the wife's (Susannah York) becoming smitten with Moore...