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...with any precision. Personally, Bundy has impressed most of those who have talked to him in his curiously uncomfortable office in University 5 with his evident air of competence, his brilliance and originality, and his capacity to impose on even the most bizarre subjects a remarkable clarity. Yet Bundy qua official, in releases, interviews, public announcements, and even profiles, appears a mysterious force that obviously moves, but rarely talks...
...still have a good telephone and a couple of legs," says Krock-and he uses them for every column. He intensely dislikes being called a pundit: "I am more concerned with the reportorial quality of what I write than with any other aspect. The reporter is the sine qua non of a newspaper. If the reporters are good, the newspaper is good...
...University to remove this policy slot from the deanery-beanery and feed it in little pieces to sweet-breathed administrators. To avoid this, and insure that the job remain a key policy position, the Innocent might even ask the Dean of Harvard College to give up a job which, qua job, can often be of marginal importance, and a $125,000 home, to step into the Admissions Office, like one of his predecessors did. (What an Innocent...
...Sellers qua Montjoy proposes war; Sellers qua Glorianna consents to it; and Sellers qua Tully Bascomb leads an expeditionary force of twenty men clad in mail and armed with crossbows, to New York, where they are to surrender. They arrive on the day of a mass air raid drill, and by chance reach a laboratory where the prototype of the devastating Q bomb has just been completed...
...sympathies, chiefly with More and Erasmus, but he is sure to indicate that he is speaking "extra-historically." Gilmore probably speaks for the vast majority of the Faculty when he says, "I don't think anyone should give a course in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences qua Lutheran or qua Catholic...