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...students, parents, and alumni sat motionless in the silence of Sanders Theater as Helen M. Caldicott, an instructor in pediatrics at Children's Hospital and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, described the horrors of nuclear war and the "psychic numbing" politicians and military leaders rely on to portray nuclear armament as necessary and moral...
...from an occasional radio news broadcast. Many alumnae remember being aware of the rise and fall of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, but mostly because of his direct attacks on Harvard, and an unusual foray into foreign policy undertaken by the Crimson. McCarthy had gone out of his way to portray the University as a den of Marxist saboteurs during his years at the helm of the Senate Committee on Investigations. In 1955, already censured for his extraordinary red-baiting campaign, he returned to the limelight temporarily as he testified against accused communists in a Boston trial. Levin attended the trial...
Unusual cases? Hardly. Employers report that fraudulent resumes have become widespread in U.S. business. Says William Lewis, president of Career Blazers, one of New York's largest employment agencies: "Up to 40% of all resumes do not accurately portray what an individual has achieved...
Delbanco describes Channing and the intellectual life of nineteenth century America in academic prose that is alternately stiff and playful, making for some confusion but not obfuscating his larger interpretations. In seeking brevity, the author looks for neatly suggestive anecdotes and historical shorthands to portray his subject, and occasionally descends to awkward constructions, calling Trumball's M'Fingal a "bundle of hesitations," and stretching to describe Channing as fighting "an internal civil war that would last as long as he lived." There are also times when it seems the author reveres his subject almost unceasingly, remarking early in the biography...
...portray Western business concerns as honest but unfortunate victims of greedy villains of the Third World. Yet it is commonplace for American businessmen to spend billions of dollars annually converting good will and influence into profits. To accomplish this, great care is taken to retain the "properly positioned" law firms, the influential former military generals, prestigious interlocking corporate directors, graduates from the "right" business schools, effective political lobbyists, influential public relations companies, relatives of prominent people. And the U.S. Internal Revenue Service will accept the accompanying costs as legitimate business expense...