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Lipset divides political activity into several categories. First, there are internal power-struggles between governing boards, administrators and academics. Second, he recounts numerous philosophically based disputes over educational policy. Early on in Harvard's history these disputes were religiously oriented pitting traditional Congregationalists against the more liberal Unitarians. In later...
WE REAFFIRM OUR SUPPORT of the NLF in its efforts to free Vietnam from colonial rule and restore it to its own people.
Died. Don Jaime Borbón y Battenberg, 66, pretender to the Spanish throne; following a stroke; in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Son of Spain's last monarch, the syphilitic Alfonso XIII, Don Jaime was born a deaf-mute. He eventually learned to speak four languages, led a sybaritic life...
In part, Orwell's durability is due to his central obsession. It was not politics or personalities that concerned him so much as language itself. In the '30s he saw words bent; in the '40s he chronicled the result: whole governments twisted out of shape. His best...
while plotting his family's ruin, Count Cenci muses: "The difference between the villainies committed in real life and the villainies acted out on the stage is that in real life we do more and say less: while in the theater we talk endlessly and accomplish very little." Cenci proposes...