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...heard his name. But Pusey, as president of Harvard, quickly realized he had tremendous influence over the nation’s academic discourse. He chose to challenge creeping McCarthyism by rallying academics behind free speech and the independence of universities, leading the circle of critics who saved America from paranoid implosion. It is no coincidence, then, that he is remembered as one of the strongest and most effective Harvard presidents of this century: “the transformer of modern Harvard” in the words of Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Rev. Peter J. Gomes...
...like their history juicy, relatable and full of comforting moral certainties--which is to say pretty much everybody without a Ph.D.--there may be no better subject than young Henry. He was a rock star in a glittering, perilous age, an intellectually curious, athletic charmer who became a uxoricidal, paranoid turkey-leg chomper, pursuing a male heir through six wives. It's a wonder it took the entertainment industry so long to fully exploit him--and the other Tudors too--since the period was one of the most scandal plagued in British history. The Diana-Charles divorce had nothing...
...named Zaid. Zaid, at the very leasts, shows her that there are attractive men. Zaid is yet another simplistic character, a quintessential good guy lacking not only flaws, but also any other traits that might have caught this reviewer’s interest. Director Phillip Haas convincingly evokes the paranoid atmosphere in Iraq, with its confusing web of alliances and grotesque ironies. Particularly successful is the portrait of the Green Zone, even if it is driven home rather more emphatically than necessary: Anna and Dan lounge by the pool at a luxurious club as mortar attacks continue outside, and they...
...came at a high price. Industrialization cost millions and the government neglected cocoa, Ghana's traditional export crop, which brought in most of the foreign exchange. As Ghana's economy began to fall apart, Nkrumah seemed more interested in pan-Africanism than the minutiae of government. He became isolated, paranoid and dictatorial. In 1964, in a move that would be repeated by other African leaders in the decades to come, Nkrumah declared Ghana a one-party state and himself leader for life. The early optimism was gone, replaced by a deep sense of disappointment and lost opportunity. "There were...
Gomes reflects on what it takes to fill the office. “You don’t have to be the brightest person in the world,” he says. You also shouldn’t be “paranoid or pathological.” One should, however, “trust the faculty and work with them; recognize talent and reward...