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Understandably enough, the Walker spy scandal is an occasion for American self-examination and self-criticism. The revelations are being pondered for what they say about how democracy sometimes allows human venality to thrive and vital state secrets to perish. But there is another lesson in the whole shocking, sordid...
"Nature will lay buried a great time," said Bacon, "and yet revive upon the occasion or temptation." Evidently, though, nature is more palatable to the conscience in the form of a cyclone than dressed as human savagery. Better to suffer the weather than to be the weather. Yet the mystery...
"It was a great occasion," Aloian says of Solzhenitsyn's appearance, adding, "It was exactly what a Harvard Commencement should be, a wonderful and profound individual dealing eloquently with a major issue."
And if the President does deign to honor Harvard with his presence, he will not be offending Riesman, who emphasizes the distinction between the elevated Commencement platform the purely celebratory occasion of the School's brithday.
"He will take the occasion of an international banking conference to go fishing in some obscure place," Feldstein notes.