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...pattern will only give credence to the "research-laboratory" label that is tacked to the name Harvard too frequently. At best, this situation is endowments can cause a tremendously lopsided University, with faculty and student talent naturally funnelling off either into other colleges where their specialties are not given orphan-child treatment. At its worst, a hit-and-miss endowment policy can neglect faculty salaries (which, at certain levels, Harvard can scarcely neglect much longer) and other immediate needs until the wealthiest University in the world is forced to forsake its leadership in certain areas for lack of faculty...
Escape in Passion, like its predecessors, is a novel with a vast and varied cast. Its 400-odd characters - including an orphan boy, an electrician, an absconding millionaire, an actress, a smattering of Cabinet ministers-have one notable advantage over Balzac's and Zola's 19th Century people: Romains' travel...
...them vaguely remembered luxurious homes in Vienna, Berlin or Warsaw. Some remembered more vividly the sight of parents being dragged off to gas chambers. All had been hauled wearily across warring Europe. When London's Central Jewish Refugee Committee rescued them at last in Prague, the 49 orphan children were like so many mute, shriveled old men & women...
...welcomed, looking anxiously from side to side, walked timidly down the gangplank. A flock of orphan children huddled protectively together, like sheep filing into a chute. A tired old woman scanned the faces along the barrier, paused, drew a great sobbing breath, then collapsed into the reaching arms of her daughter...
Likening the present United Nations Organization to an orphan among the giants that are its sponsors, he hit at the weaknesses inherent in the UN structure, and defended his outspoken criticism with the observation that "I am not interested in the United Nations as such; I am interested in peace...