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...real "action" around the University, and recent statistics show that the incidence of property and violent crime on Harvard property has declined significantly. And there have been other changes, as well. New leadership and increased input into the decision-making system have eased the pentup tension of the policeman who last year, still recuperating from the David L. Gorski and Steven Hall administration, claimed morale was at an all-time...
...live, Luskin's voice choked with tear gas as he cried, "Somebody's about to pull my plug!" Somebody did indeed pull his plug--a University policeman--but he was valiantly back on the air within three minutes. The day ended when he and five other WHRB staffers were carted off to prison...
...Passage to India seemed to exhaust the theme that had stretched from his earlier work. Most important, Forster had exorcised most of his private demons. He began to find those friendships, physical and emotional, that he had desired for so long. One, with a happily married ex-London policeman, lasted some 40 years. He no longer needed to live in his novels. Instead, he wrote nonfiction and spoke out occasionally on current affairs. Two Cheers for Democracy (1951), a collection of political essays, was a classic expression of the detached, liberal temper. His reputation as a novelist grew...
...those tales are generally somber, despite their lyrical intensity. Hanley's novels, which have enjoyed a considerable reputation in England since the 1930s, exude a chill that corresponds to the spare, cramped lives of his characters: a bardic policeman who becomes obsessed with the disappearance of a tramp from his village, a spinster who lives with her father on a remote farm. It is a landscape out of Hardy, but with none of Hardy's ruminative asides; a master of idiom and intonation, Hanley relies on dialogue to disclose character. His prose reads like a play...
...Peace Prize, and the the lady I was speaking with was none other than Mairead Corrigan, one of the founders of the Peace People movement in Ireland. She laughingly told me that she had once unsuccessfully tried to get out of a parking ticket by showing it to a policeman, and then answered my embarrassingly witless, though wellintentioned, questions about Ireland...