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...distinctions might have appeared to be unimportant. If, for instance, security patrol members were working long hours, it must not have seemed wrong for them to pay themselves appropriately even it meant cutting corners a little. If Robin Schmidt's advice would have helped Bok, it must have seemed unimportant whether that advice dealt, with matters of substance or purely of style and appearance...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Confusing Means And Ends | 6/12/1975 | See Source »

...Shirkola Forest on the south shore of the Caspian Sea in Iran, the oak trees are as thick as the ones in old Errol Flynn Robin Hood movies, according to Richard G. Leahy, and he adds proudly, "There are still leopards there...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Planning A Utopia For Iran | 6/12/1975 | See Source »

...grown into the habit of attributing his lack of visibility to the size and structure of the University, something that could not be changed. But confidential memoranda from Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, and Robin Schmidt, assistant vice president for public affairs, painted a different picture...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: Telling It to The Boss | 6/12/1975 | See Source »

...world. And if we can be fooled about the world, we can be fooled about ourselves. If we can be talked into pursuing goals that have nothing to do with our ideals, them we can be talked into thinking that falling into the mold leaves us, like Robin, somehow less abandoned...

Author: By Wendy B. Jackson, | Title: The Victims of Success | 6/11/1975 | See Source »

...same, but we are fooling ourselves into thinking that it has changed, that there is a New Mood on Campus and new conditions which justify it. We are willing to be fooled because the whole truth of it is painful to see--just as it is painful to see Robin Starling's plastic arm and legs...

Author: By Wendy B. Jackson, | Title: The Victims of Success | 6/11/1975 | See Source »

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