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...felt inspired enough by life outside the University to place Harvard in that context. The Harvard Archives have preserved only a few of these speeches, but from the few which remain, their themes are easily recognizable. In 1940, a time when most Americans were still enjoying the liberties of post-World War I isolation one-and-a-half years before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tudor Gardiner spoke about the dangers of peacetime, and American security...
Eleven years later, in the post-World War II era, some American politicians and citizens felt differently. For some, American isolationism was replaced by a more internationalist commitment to preserve global security and peace. John Cowles Jr., on Class Day, June 1951, had a different message from Gardiner for his classmates...
...greatest strength of Kiernan's biography is that it is more than just biography; the author carefully interweaves the story of Arafat with the Palestinian experience from post-World War I days to the present. Of course, it would be impossible and senseless to isolate Arafat's story from that of his people, but Kiernan (who just last year published a historical survey of the Middle East) interrelates the two so tightly that his book is as much the story of the movement...
Until a couple of months ago, Ford had reason to hope he would go into the election with the economy a decided plus. By hewing to conservative, grow-slow policies, he had done much to lift the country out of its worst post-World War II recession. The Consumer Price Index has been steadily coming down, from a disastrous 11% in 1974 to a merely awful 9.1% in 1975 to an encouraging 5½% this year. Yet Ford's hopes were frustrated by a lot of discouraging statistics...
...reached a record 87,697,000 in May, or 1,405,000 more than were on payrolls at the pre-recession high. Yet, because large numbers of women and young people are entering the labor market, the unemployment rate in May dropped only to 7.3%-down hearteningly from the post-World War II high of 8.9%, reached exactly a year earlier, but still far above the rates of 5% or less that prevailed in late 1973, when the recession struck (see charts...