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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMBASSADOR'S JOURNAL, by John Kenneth Galbraith. Kept during the author's two years as Ambassador to India, this diary is rare both for first-rate prose and succinct, irreverent opinion ("The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women...
...judge startled lawyers across the country. Many law professors believe that Hoffman not only overreacted but also created constitutional problems that he could have avoided. Sanford Kadish of the University of California at Berkeley termed the sentences "savage, barbarous and vindictive." Stanford's Anthony Amsterdam called them "exceedingly rare and harsh...
After four decades as archfoe of liberal Protestantism, the Rev. Carl McIntire, 63, has proved that he has a rare gift: everything he touches turns to schism. Contention has dogged him since his seminary days, when he joined a fundamentalist rebellion against liberalizing trends within the Presbyterian Church. Later, he split with fellow rebels to form his own sect, the Bible Presbyterian Church-and then his own church split yet again. Defections have periodically shaken the ranks of his American Council of Christian Churches (A.C.C.C.) and more recently his International Council of Christian Churches (I.C.C.C.), organizations that Mclntire formed...
...would be a rare individual indeed who could enjoy listening, on a series of Tuesday afternoons, to what. in my view, is becoming excessively glib and insufficiently examined rhetoric concerning 'confidence,' authority and 'legitimacy,' without much regard to certain other matters of some moment, including responsibility and even, in some circumstances, a degree of sacrifice. It would be a still rarer individual who relished parliamentary debates explicitly, or more commonly implicitly, concerned what his own alleged qualities of mind and character...
...Princeton game is always unusually important for Harvard. Whereas a loss to Dartmouth does not necessarily doom all chances for a successful season or even an Ivy title, and the Yale game, except in rare cases, is meaningless in terms of championships, the Princeton contest comes at a crucial juncture...