Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it's all over and done with, you'll probably remember the months leading up to your first classes at Harvard as the time groups here made their most crude and direct approaches to you. You are the niave prey, they are the vultures swooping in on you trying to sell you yearbooks, linens, Workers' Power, rings and Confi Guides. Since you made that fateful decision to attend Harvard instead of Stanford, Yale or Morgan St., you no doubt have been deluged with information and solicitations from every group remotely connected with Harvard...
...other half. There is no place at this University for decision-making processes which are based on other than facts, reason and good-will. I remain myopic regarding the processes by which politics, fear, ambivalence, and self-serving motives cloud issues, and render decision-making procedures impotent, laborious and prey to error. History, ipso facto, mandates this view. Is it to be ruled out that a University, wherein thinking people have collected to reason together--given ready access to accumulated knowledge--cannot apply that knowledge and overcome the mistakes of the past...
...Inefficiency and corruption of local bureaucrats have slowed the distribution of the emergency supplies. In Mali and Niger, officials have diverted some of the donated grain to commercial channels for sale at enormous profits. Much of the donated food remains heaped high on the docks where it is prey to rats, locusts and thieves. The major problem, however, is logistics. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, after inspecting the famine areas in February, reported: "I saw piles of foodstuffs in the capitals of the drought-stricken countries, but the governments told me they cannot ship it to the areas most afflicted...
...election of F.D.R. (a broadcast of his second inaugural provides background for one of the gang's robberies.) Their families depend on the robbers to get through the hard times and members of the gang become like members of a family--until finally they are forced to prey on each other as well and a wife betrays the young hero Bowie to the police in return for leniency toward her imprisoned husband...
...cannot resist the music critic's temptation to liken them to composers, setting both grandmasters and musicians in parallel hierarchies. Capablanca--"pure, classic, elegant... yet capable of demonic force in his great moments... the complete technician" is the Mozart of chess, and Alekhine, "a nervous tiger who stalked his prey with involuntary physical twitchings and psychic lust" is Wagner. Fischer, Schonberg asserts, surpasses even Wagner in terms of "monomania...