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...politics of University finance. But it sidesteps most controversy, and the overwhelming array of questions tends to subdue the reader to a humble silence rather than rouse him to debate. The memorandum does demonstrate that rated on fiscal and political clout, the administration is feeble and the faculties potent. In addition, the "raw power of the alumni" identifies them as the sleeping dragons outside the everyday bounds of fiscal politics. As the Committee observes, the literal implementation of "power to the people" would make them the final arbiters of Harvard's money. The immediate exigencies of the financial crunch, tragically...
General LeMay's woman's town includes some potent and highly motivated females. Elegant Widow Katharine Graham, 63, presides with couturiered cool and a few well-chosen four-letter words over a communications realm that includes the Washington Post, Newsweek and three TV stations. An invitation to dinner at her handsome Georgetown house is a prize second only to dinner at the White House, and her guest list is guaranteed to be more stimulating. At a party she threw to celebrate Columnist Joseph Alsop's 60th birthday, 140 guests sat down to dine under a tent two stories high...
Throughout the game the Harvard defense led by Chris Wilmot. Rick Scott and Chris Ferner, was able to throttle a potent Hartwick attack which could have scored much more than four goals...
...sophomore line of Bob MacManama, Bill Corkery and Dave Hynes scored three goals in the first ten minutes of play. But even more important, the junior line of Tom Paul, Bob Havern and Leif Rosenberger proved- with its three tallies- that the Crimson is going to have a potent one-two-three scoring punch...
...depth of Gardner's observations, however, and the acuteness of his understanding demand something more from him. With material as potent as Fat City's, an author keeping his own sense of bitter outrage under wraps relinquishes his right to poetry. One keeps hoping that Gardner will let himself go, will hurl himself into his work as Agee did in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, will see himself in his characters' plight, and implicate his readers in a necessary moral rededication. This doesn't happen. But Gardner's first remains a fine and sensitive novel, and a courageous...