Word: rather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government stationery? Hyland reports that Kissinger contends the FBI would never release such a memo about him to anyone else because the Freedom of Information Act only permits the release of records on a specific person to that individual alone. Diamond says he filed under a subject--Harvard University-- rather than a name, and so had every right to read the documents...
...political prescience rather than zealous patriotism that probably most impelled Kissinger to offer his services to the bureau. Kissinger knew he could eventually use the international network of contacts he made through friendships with seminar participants. To risk their disillusionment with the American way, provoked by anti-American tracts such as the flyer, would in the long run weaken his diplomatic muscle. Kissinger, his colleagues believe, thought in these lifetime terms. "I've often said myself that Kissinger either consciously or unconsciously had a sense of destiny." Price says. Steven R. Graubard, who worked closely with Kissinger on the seminar...
...that a very small classroom would contain all the people at Harvard who share Ruskin's opinion, but without such a conception art is not worth bothering with. I met very few people at Harvard who really cared about art, who sought it out as a first-hand experience rather than accepting passively what was flashed up on the projector or dished out in the anthologies. The guardians of the humanities do little to convince undergraduates of the importance of their subjects, and indeed do not seem very worried. To cite just one example, when a visitor lectures...
...ADMINISTRATION claims the professors should be disciplined because they violated their contracts. Five of the professors held classes off-campus or made them up later, rather than cross picket lines of striking clerical workers for a few days at the beginning of this term. The sixth professor is charged with using correspondence to the university for his own purposes...
Khalaf said the Palestinians had told Iranian authorities they "believe America cannot be fought through occupation of its embassy, but rather through serious and radical confrontation...