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The Senator claims to have composed the book in longhand, drawing upon journals he kept for years. Aside from a sprightly epigram or three, which read as if they were recycled from speeches, he is scarcely more convincing as a writer than as an orator. Time Present, Time Past is...
Bill Bradley's new memoir (Knopf; 442 pages; $26), could be a prologue to a presidential run. The book has an impressive first printing (100,000 copies), and the author is committed to a 20-city publicity tour. Nonetheless, says Bradley, "what I'm doing is not about candidacy. The...
Speeches ranged from a farewell address by outgoing Dean of the college L. Fred Jewett '57 to a humorours s address by Ivy Orator Eric H. Baker '95 entitled "Luke Goes to Harvard: A Jedi in Cambridge.
Harvard Orator Clark H. Dean '95 recalled his first-year at Harvard, when Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles welcomed the class because President Neil L. Rudenstine was not yet Officially in office.
So wrote the Romantic-era Polish poet Juliusz Slowacki in 1848, lines so visionary and improbable -- a Pole as Supreme Pontiff! -- that few, even in long-suffering Poland, believed they would ever come true. In 1938, however, a Polish teenager would be singled out for what would eventually be an...