Word: partings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center, a day in the life of a fellow begins as early as 7 o'clock. The morning is sacred territory, generally reserved for the "project," the book proposed by a candidate as part of his reason for coming. Each fellow has a study with the inevitable sliding glass door leading out to a first-floor terrace or a second-floor balcony. Before noon the most delicate knock on a resident humanist's door requires supreme courage. Even the ring of a telephone constitutes a gross intrusion...
...center was founded in 1978 by its present president, Philosopher Charles Frankel, with a $625,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Bennett must regularly remind himself, "What are we doing for the public?" Sometimes he is part of the response. A Harvard Law School graduate, he serves on a committee advising the American Bar Association on a code of ethics for lawyers. He has participated in a TV panel discussion on Jonestown, organized by Frankel, who not only continues to teach at Columbia but also mans an office that the N.H.C. maintains in New York City. Long...
...Soviet side, the release of the dissidents was only part of the Kremlin's effort to appear benign.* The flow of Jewish emigration, which the U.S. Congress has made a precondition of the granting of most-favored-nation trading status to the Soviets, is swelling to record levels. Some Congressmen believe that the tough trade policy forced the Kremlin to ease its emigration policy. That view, however, is disputed by Administration specialists. They argue that by Unking freer trade with freer emigration Congress actually caused Moscow to clamp down on exit visas for about two years to demonstrate that...
...thought it represented a gross insensitivity on the part of a school that is supposed to espouse lofty ideals, and I got involved in the discussions because I felt very strongly about that," one of the students who participated in the discussions said today...
Pineles said, "If you give a literal reading to the wording on the plaque, you will see it is a memorial but only on the part of the foundation. That's a key distinction, one I hope other groups will recognize...